Hi Don, Norfolk seems to have been listed intermittently in Lloyd's Registers, but then in the early 1870s she was shipping bullion back from Melbourne and the Australian gold fields - not exactly easily insurable!  Her then master, Tonkin, is mentioned only the once, in 1870, but that may well have changed by 1875.  In June 1871 she arrived in the UK with £13,000 worth of gold; in November 1872, £18,000; and in October 1873, £24,500.  In total about 5 million pounds today.  On that same last voyage, October 1873, Norfolk also appears to have carried the first experimental consignment of frozen meat from Australia to the UK, using James Harrison's cold-room method, an experiment that sadly failed, and the meat had to be thrown overboard off the Azores. A choice of two possible vessels of sufficient size stands out: 1. Norfolk, Ship-rig, ON 11920, 953 tons, built 1857, owners M. Wigram & Son, London.  and 2. Norfolk, screw steamer, ON 51226, 1064 tons, built 1865, owned by Bailey & Leetham of Hull.  The CLIP Crewlist website http://www.crewlist.org.uk/data/vesselsnum.php can be searched on those ONs for surviving documents, and a crew list might survive for 1875. Hope this is useful, although I suspect you might know some of this already! Best regards, Peter Klein ________________________________ From: Don Taig <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 6 July 2013, 8:08 Subject: [MAR] Ship Norfolk Hi Listers Trying to find information about the ship Norfolk and particularly it's crew in order to trace one crew member George Sutton's merchant seaman career. The ship berthed at Williamstown, Melbourne, Australia in 1875. George Sutton died of Sunstroke and never left the boat until his body was released for burial in the Melbourne General Cemetery. Any help in pointing me in the right direction for more details would be greatly appreciated. Cheers to all Listers Don Taig Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message