Hello can anyone help me please? I have come upon a brick wall, the most confusing website known to man... you may know it as the National Archives! So my ancestor was a merchant navy captain, active seatime 1840-1865 i have master & mates certificates & a list of some vessels he served on, i'm trying to find info on the vessels & him but to no avail, is there an easier place to look? Because honestly i have given up on the NA it just hurts to look! Edward Byrne b1823 liverpool. Cert 3159 Vessels i have him on, not necessarily as a Captain, Kingston 1846,Charles Jouer/Jones?? 1847,House of Zubec/Quebec 1848Inglewood 1849John Gibson 1850 Protector 1850-57 Foam of the cape of good horn?? ZingariLightning Hope you can help me, Thanks Jackie

Hello again, Jackie, For what it's worth, this book below *might* have detail about your man. Use worldcat.org to locate the nearest library with a copy. The log of the Shanghai pilot service, 1831-1932 Unknown Binding – 1935 by George Philip (Author) Also Edward Byrne is listed in the 1867 Mercantile Navy List as owner of the 165 ton, 60 HP vessel ELFIN of Hong Kong, Official Number 42955. (The Official Number was a permanent and unique identifier of a vessel. It remained the same no matter how many times the vessel changed owner, changed name or changed Port of Registry.) When you plug that O.N. in at the CLIP website I gave you in the previous post, you'll see that she was built in Canada. Regards, Adi -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 3/17/15, Jackie via <mariners@rootsweb.com> wrote: Subject: [MAR] Request for Help, Edward Bynre To: "MARINERS@rootsweb.com" <mariners@rootsweb.com> Received: Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 10:58 AM Hello can anyone help me please? I have come upon a brick wall, the most confusing website known to man... you may know it as the National Archives! So my ancestor was a merchant navy captain, active seatime 1840-1865 i have master & mates certificates & a list of some vessels he served on, i'm trying to find info on the vessels & him but to no avail, is there an easier place to look?  Because honestly i have given up on the NA it just hurts to look! Edward Byrne b1823 liverpool. Cert 3159 Vessels i have him on, not necessarily as a Captain,   Kingston 1846,Charles Jouer/Jones?? 1847,House of Zubec/Quebec 1848Inglewood 1849John Gibson 1850 Protector 1850-57  Foam of the cape of good horn?? ZingariLightning Hope you can help me, Thanks Jackie                            ------------------------------- 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