Hello Nivard, When you write that you have "tried Lloyd's", which Lloyd's do you mean? Lloyd's Register or Lloyd's list (the newspaper)? I would try volumes of Lloyd's List online at Hathi Trust, build a collection of vessel names and then start investigating them.http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=webster;id=hvd.32044010099042;view=1up;seq=5;start=1;sz=10;page=search;orient=0 Regards,Adi   From: Nivard Ovington via <mariners@rootsweb.com> To: "mariners@rootsweb.com" <MARINERS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 4:55 PM Subject: [MAR] George WEBSTER 1730 to 1795 master mariner Hi all I have long had the monumental inscription for my 5th g.grandfather George WEBSTER at Brotton North Yorkshire In memory of George Webster, Master Mariner, who died the 14th of April 1795 aged 65 years. Also Margaret his wife who departed this life January 1832 aged 92 years. And George their son died May 1 1813 aged 29 years Although he does not appear to be buried there But I have just been given the following information which may be on the same George WEBSTER (courtesy of Stephen Baines author of Captain Cooks Merchant Ships) George Webster, Stockton, Seaman, Tryton 1754 (previously on Dispatch of Stockton); Brotton,Seaman, John & Elizabeth, 1755 (& previously); Master, Hopewell, 1761, 1763, 1765; Mark (Marske?), Cook, Martha, 1784-5; Seaman, Mentor, 1788; Seaman/Cook, Pallas, 1789. I have tried Lloyds but I must be looking in the wrong way or place as I have not found him listed About the only other information I found was in the newspapers, the Caledonian Mercury Oct 13 1766, The Hopewell of Whitby, Captain George WEBSTER, is burnt in Riga road, but the crew saved What are my best avenues for research, or can anyone add to the above -- Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)

Hi Adi Well in my ignorance I thought Lloyds was Lloyds I had the link http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000549597 bookmarked for a long time but never needed to look at it in any depth I tried a search for WEBSTER in the years 1761 to 1766 as per the information recently received and found nothing, so tried Hopewell, that got a lengthy list but none appeared to relate to WEBSTER I looked again this morning and this time have found at least two references one as WEBFTER (long S) the other as WEBFLER (this one notes the same detail that it burnt in the Riga road) I do not think I did anything different in my search so why they didn't seem to show the first time around I don't know So retried a search under WEBFTER and found 15 more hits, none appear to have a link though to mine (but hard to say for sure) So will retry some searches, I noticed a general search doesn't get all results, so am now checking a few more years to see what I find I then also looked for Lloyds registers, I found an incomplete run here http://www.maritimearchives.co.uk/lloyds-register.html But so far had little joy with them Are there any other resources to try ? Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 29/09/2015 22:48, Mme_N_Carmichael wrote: > Hello Nivard, > > When you write that you have "tried Lloyd's", which Lloyd's do you mean? > Lloyd's Register or Lloyd's list (the newspaper)? > > I would try volumes of Lloyd's List online at Hathi Trust, build a > collection of vessel names and then start investigating them. > http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=webster;id=hvd.32044010099042;view=1up;seq=5;start=1;sz=10;page=search;orient=0 > > Regards, > Adi