It's the vessel named on his death at sea document on findmypast, so I guess that must have been the vessel. Did you speak to the owner of the website specifically about this? I wonder if there were ever any memorials for people who died whilst working for them, or any other records. Annoyingly I can't find any newspaper reports on it, but if as Andy said such drownings were quite common, maybe it was not considered newsworthy. On Tuesday, 3 March 2015, 12:06, Ron Mapplebeck <ron.mapplebeck1@virgin.net> wrote: Supplementary to the detailed and interesting response from Andy Adams, I was puzzled as to how Kate thought this incident involved a tug based in Goole - the GOOLE NO. 6. George Robinson, compiler of the gooleships website says: she was one of the larger ones and may have been down there, think I read that Goole & Hull ST had some barges that were used for coal shipments under tow so that could have been why she was on the Thames. See NORA, EDITH, ELSIE (barges included in gooleships), all too big to be used on the Humber I think. This seems to tie in with the explanation detailed by Andy. Ron Mapplebeck (UK) *** On 26/02/2015 15:41, kate smith via wrote: Taken from William Thornton's 1901 death at sea document. "Drowned whilst going from the shore to the vessel by getting athwart a tier of steamers and the boat capsized." What does that mean? I think this was the vessel. http://www.gooleships.co.uk/scott/gooleno61885.htm It looks tiny but was supposedly 100ft. It happened in the Thames and he was a ship's cook in his 60s. Thanks for any help. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message