It certainly works in mysterious ways. I had hoped that by typing in SHIPS that I might find an outside chance of finding my gt grandfather, James Walton JARVIS, who was at sea for 1881/91. Found his wife in '81 who was at home in Hackney. Is there any way of jumping from A to J as I had to trawl through some 3000 names to get there. So irksome that I didn't attempt getting to the Rs for his brother-in-law, who sailed with him at times. I then typed in VESSELS. Even stranger. Besides battleships, one finds, empty dwellings and all sorts, but, the name column is totally blank. Click on "View record" and in a few cases, excepting empty dwellings of course, names appear. It seems a bit like putting the cart before the horse to me, unless one knows the vessel an ancestor was on.....but then if you did, what is the point? Michael Tebbutt.