Searching for a family of five traveling from Ireland to Montreal in about 1834 or 1835. There were five coming from County Mayo: Jamed CARLIN, his wife Mary DOHERTY CARLIN and two children Terrance and Catherine Carlin. Margaret SHANNAHAN CARLIN, mother and grandmother also in the group. They settled in Grenville, Quebec where 7 more children were born. There are no sailings in 1836 on the Ships List to verify any passengers. Just would like to establish where this family came from in County Mayo, Ireland. Any clues would be of great help. MA Moore

Hello Deb, Details of the FINLAND at http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsF.html Photo at http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/ look under Red Star Line. regards Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debra Strezenec" <bebbajohn@optonline.net> To: <TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 4:09 PM Subject: [TSL] FINLAND > Hello All: > > I have found our grandmother's arrival from Czechoslovakia on the FINLAND. > Can someone direct me where to get information regarding this ship? > Pictures, etc? > > Also, the manifest on the Ellis Island website is very poor - it can > barely be read. Any ideas where a better list can be found? > > > First Name: Marie > Last Name: Rajniak > Ethnicity: Cz. Slovak, Slovak > Last Place of Residence: Hybbe, Czechoslovakia > Date of Arrival: Jan 04, 1922 > Age at Arrival: 21y Gender: F Marital Status: S > Ship of Travel: Finland > Port of Departure: Antwerp > Manifest Line Number: 0007 > > > Thanks for all direction -- have a great day! > Deb Strezenec > > > ==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > TheShipsList Website > http://www.theshipslist.com/ > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > > >

In light of the recent Ships Lost ast Sea info... My problem is that I need to find info on a ship that was damaged and drifted helplessly for a short while....but never sunk. It was the HUDSON which sailed from England and ended up landing in the Port of New York on November 27th, 1869. There was a published story about my Gr-Grandfather on this ship and about it crashing into something on the coast of Newfoundland/Nova Scotia - taking on water and drifting helplessly - but then ultimately making it's way to NY. I found the passenger list - but can't seem to find any mention of the "troubles" the ship encountered. Any help would be appreciated! Jeff

Beverly, This list is by far one of the most helpful I am on, and I do not normally get into advertising my own lists on someone else's, but I am List Admin of the following lists that might also be helpful to you, especially the first one: Shipwreck Nova-Scotia-Seafarers New-England-Seafarers All three have companion message boards as well that are gatewayed to their list if you prefer doing it that way. David E. Cann decann@infionline.net davidecann@gmail.com (alternate) -----Original Message----- From: BZanon@aol.com [mailto:BZanon@aol.com] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 10:28 AM To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TSL] SHIPS LOST AT SEA WEBSITE Good morning Shipsters, A fellow transcriber has asked me if I have ever come across a website that listed ship sinkings of any type? <snip> Beverly Mack Zanon ISTG Charter Member/Research Team _http://www.immigrantships.net_ (http://www.immigrantships.net/)

Hello All: I have found our grandmother's arrival from Czechoslovakia on the FINLAND. Can someone direct me where to get information regarding this ship? Pictures, etc? Also, the manifest on the Ellis Island website is very poor - it can barely be read. Any ideas where a better list can be found? First Name: Marie Last Name: Rajniak Ethnicity: Cz. Slovak, Slovak Last Place of Residence: Hybbe, Czechoslovakia Date of Arrival: Jan 04, 1922 Age at Arrival: 21y Gender: F Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Finland Port of Departure: Antwerp Manifest Line Number: 0007 Thanks for all direction -- have a great day! Deb Strezenec

Good morning Shipsters, A fellow transcriber has asked me if I have ever come across a website that listed ship sinkings of any type? The following in her words -- One time, she was surfing somewhere, and came across such a website where ships that were lost at sea were listed in sort of a 'Excel' pattern...that it listed ship name, type of ship; when it was lost, how it was lost, how many lives lost, how many survivors. This list included any and all ships lost during the WW2 in both Pacific and Atlantic. There were a lot of Japanese ships as well as ours listed by being sunk by planes, etc. But, there were a lot of German ships as well. It also listed ships like the Titanic, Normandie, Bismarck, Andrea Doria/Stockholm disaster, etc. It was a very, very interesting read......since that sort of thing interested her!! It would say if the ship had been torpedoed; kamikaze or bombed, etc. There was a tremendous loss of life on the seas during the WW2; even some ships that were taking prisoners from the South Sea Islands to Japan and sunk by our own planes. If anyone on this list happens to know what the web site is that she is referring to, please let me know. Thank you in advance, Beverly Mack Zanon ISTG Charter Member/Research Team _http://www.immigrantships.net_ (http://www.immigrantships.net/)

Anyone have any site for data and an picture for this ship which was used for a voyage from Bremen to Baltimore, arriving on July 2, 1869. Thanks Frank Jurenka

Hi, I wonder if anyone can offer any guidance regarding one of my Ancestors who emigrated to Toronto from England. His name was James Lyne Seekings, born November 1882, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. He married Edith Jerrard in Toronto in August 1914, and Edith died in December 1821. Her death certificate shows that she had been in Toronto for 8 years. I believe that she also emigrated from the U.K. and it is possible that they both arrived in Toronto together. Can anyone advise as to the best method of searching for any details of their passage to Canada. Could I obtain any microfilm, here in the U.K via the local LDS office. Or will these details be available at some stage on the internet. Many thanks for reading this. Regards, Derek

Cobh, formerly Queenstown before reverting to its old Irish name in 1922, is the Codh (cove) of Cork, south east Ireland. This estuary was the principal embarkation point for free female emigrants to Australia and America after 1845. The sailing ships would invariably begin their journey in Liverpool, thence to Queenstown picking up thousands of penniless Irish men and women wanting to leave to build a new life, especially in the famine years of 1844-48.The ships thereafter sailed south to the new world. My great grandmother, Ann England from Co Armagh was one of these young ladies, marrying and settling in Maryborough, Australia. As an aside there is a very impressive monument to Annie Moore on the foreshore of Cobh. She became the first ever emigrant to be processed in Ellis Island, NY Noel Blake ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Dodsworth" <af877@freenet.carleton.ca> To: <TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:24 AM Subject: Re: [TSL] Sailing Route > > "Keith Hazzard" <hazzardsk@dodo.com.au> posted: > >> Can someone tell me the route taken by ships from Liverpool & Belfast >> to the USA in the 1850s. > > Assuming Keith means sailing ships, I would think most ships > from Liverpool to New York would go round the south of Ireland. > However if a steady south wind was present, they could go north > about Ireland. > It was uncommon for sailing ships to make intermediate stops, > so Liverpool - Belfast - New York would have been unusual. > I think sailings from Belfast to New York would probably have > gone north of Ireland. > After crossing the Atlantic, shipping routes converged on the > Grand Banks, east of Newfoundland, and then generally converged > again in the Nantucket area, near Cape Cod, to pick up a New York > pilot. > > -- > Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE from LIST - mailto:TheShipsList-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > To UNSUBSCRIBE from DIGEST - mailto:TheShipsList-D-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > Leave Subject Line empty * Put Only: UNSUBSCRIBE in body of message > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ > >

Seeking info. on the steam packet, the New York, which was shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 7, 1846 during a hurricane. The ship operated as a steam packet primarily along the New Orleans, LA to Galveston, TX route from 1839 until its demise in 1846. The New York was chartered to transport troops to the U. S. Army depot at Brazos St. Iago in south Texas on April 29, 1846 and completed several other military charters until her life ended in a hurricane. Seventeen of her passengers and crew, including 5 children, drowned. I'm trying to locate any info. pertaining to the shipwreck and/or a list of passengers, both victims and survivors. My immigrant ancestor, John Kent, immigrated in 1846 either from Prussia or Germany. He was born about 1827. The story I've always been told is that his ship sank and he was the sole survivor of his family. He was credited as being a hero because he saved the lives of many fellow passengers. His death record indicates that he was a veteran of the U. S. - Mexican War, 1846-1848 so this fits with the fact that the New York was a military charter. I suspect that he arrived via New Orleans, LA and joined the military effort in Mexico. His real name was likely Johan(nes) Knecht/Kneckt. His name was Anglicized to John Kent. He later settled in IL, then moved to WI where he died in 1897. I would like to know if there were any newsaper accounts of the shipwreck (in New Orleans? in Galveston, TX?) which might include a passenger list. Any info. would be fantastic! There is a website http://www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/regulate/environ/archaeological/19th_century.html which contains a short article about the shipwreck and attempts to salvage it. Many thanks! Joni Leffler

Could someone lookup the following family on Ancestry.com to help me determine the full names of these immigrants? On the customs service passenger list for the July 14, 1880 arrival of the S. S. Holland at New York from London, Germany is shown as "the country to which they severally belong". (George Faint age 41 came with his wife (A. Faint age 41), Spin. (A. Faint age 19), son Edward William Thomas Faint age 11, and daughters Ada Faint age 9 & Mand. Faint age 4) Also, why would Germany be listed as the country they are from when they are from London? Thank you in advance for your help, Art Faint, in New Hampshire

Hi Debbie, The MARACAS was an American owned ship and this was her last voyage under the U.S. flag. Basically a freighter but may have had accommodation for a few passengers. I doubt if photos exist of this ship. CARMARTHENSHIRE 1887 2,929 gross tons, length 329.5ft x beam 40ft, built 1887 by C. S. Swan & Hunter, Newcastle-on-Tyne for Jenkins & Co, London. 1901 sold to Trinidad Shipping & Trading Co (G. Christall), London and renamed MARACAS. 1914 sold to New York Transatlantic S.S. Co, New York. 22nd Feb.1915 seized by British on voyage New York to Rotterdam and Copenhagen and sold as war prize on 9th Nov.1915 to A/S Solgran, Stavanger, Norway renamed MAJOREN. 3rd Sep.1917 captured, shelled and sunk by German submarine U.95 off Bloody Foreland on voyage Philadelphia to Glasgow. regards Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: <Tpower5514@aol.com> To: <TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:28 PM Subject: [TSL] Need Info > Hi everyone, > > > I have been looking for information on a ship that my Grandmother and her > father came to the US on. > > > The name of the ship is "The Maracas" and it left the port of Naples, > Italy. > It arrived at the Port of New York ( Ellis Island ) on February 15, 1915. > > I have found my Grandmother and her father's names on the ship manifest > but > I would love to find any information and picture of this ship. I have no > clue as to which shipping line it was a part of. > > My Grandmother was Carmela Garguilo age 20. > > Her father was Ciro Gargiulo age 54. > > This is how it is shown on the passenger manifest. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated as to where I can located anything > about this ship. > > > Thank you all ! > > > > Debbie > > Debbie > TPower5514@aol.com > > > ==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== > TheShipsList Searchable Archives Database > http://www.oulton.com/cwa/newsships.nsf/by+date > TheShipsList RootsWeb Archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TheShipsList/ > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > > >

Can someone help me find information about the Bristol Factor. My ancestor was on board on 30 September 1679. Thanks Jill

If you go to Google Advanced Search and type in Bristol Factor you get quite a few hits.. This is one of them: http://www.welcomesociety.org/Welcome_ancestors.htm Paul of San Diego

From Encyclopedia of Nautical Knowledge, Cornell Maritime Press, 1953 Cranky or Crank. Quality of being easily inclined; top-heavy; referred to a vessel having small initial stability, or indicating a comparatively high center of gravity and consequent inability to carry sail, or withstand other external lateral pressure, without heeling to unusually large angles; opposed to stiff. Due to her longer rolling period, a crank vessel is characterized by slow easy motion in a seaway, while a stiff one, in her tendency to remain perpendicular to the wave-slope, will act with a quick, jerky motion. The crank vessel is thus a comfortable "sea-boat," compared with the stiff one. Tender is another word for crank in this context. I might question the author's remark that a crank vessel is comfortable. If the ship is too crank, she rolls over, hangs, and when you wonder if she is ever coming back, she does, only to repeat the cycle...... I sailed from England to Finland on a coaster with steel plates as cargo = stiff. Coming back the hold was full of pulpwood and there was eight feet on deck so the ship was tender and we ran into a gale :-) For comfort, something between crank and stiff is probably best but this cannot always be achieved given the cargo available. Cargo stowage is an art; the first mate's job usually. A common westbound cargo on sailing ships carrying emigrants in the 1850s was railroad iron - those ships would have been stiff and quite uncomfortable. -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi Debbie At 05:28 PM 2006-08-30 -0400, Tpower5514@aol.com wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I have been looking for information on a ship that my Grandmother and her >father came to the US on. > > >The name of the ship is "The Maracas" and it left the port of Naples, Italy. > It arrived at the Port of New York ( Ellis Island ) on February 15, 1915. > >I have found my Grandmother and her father's names on the ship manifest but >I would love to find any information and picture of this ship. I have no >clue as to which shipping line it was a part of. Just to be sure of the name myself, I had a look and it says "N.Y. Transportation S.S. Co." I wonder if it might be this ship ? Shire Line http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/shire.htm Carmarthenshire (2), 1887, 1901 sold to Trinidad Shipping & Trading Co, London renamed Maracas. 2726. I'd never heard of the N.Y. Transportation S.S. Company. On the "Record of Aliens held ...." they called it the N.Y. Transatlantic (Es. ?) and called the ship Marocas ;-} Probably Ted will be able to comment about this ship. Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/

Hi everyone, I have been looking for information on a ship that my Grandmother and her father came to the US on. The name of the ship is "The Maracas" and it left the port of Naples, Italy. It arrived at the Port of New York ( Ellis Island ) on February 15, 1915. I have found my Grandmother and her father's names on the ship manifest but I would love to find any information and picture of this ship. I have no clue as to which shipping line it was a part of. My Grandmother was Carmela Garguilo age 20. Her father was Ciro Gargiulo age 54. This is how it is shown on the passenger manifest. Any help would be greatly appreciated as to where I can located anything about this ship. Thank you all ! Debbie Debbie TPower5514@aol.com

Hi Sue, Thank You so much for all of your hard work and effort. As a list member I can say for myself that I am truly grateful ! Thank You ! Thank You ! Debbie Debbie TPower5514@aol.com

*new* for TheShipsList website http://www.theshipslist.com/ All the new and updated files and databases have been placed on their own page(s) Find them on the front page in between the big arrows --------------> <--------------- At the bottom of each of these pages I have placed links named " previous month " and " next month " so you are able to navigate back and forth between the monthly *new & updated* pages, as I only keep three months of *new* page links on the Home page. New for August 2006 is . . . o Arrivals: o Ships to Quebec 1826 (completed) Finally I have completed the 1826 newspaper extractions (four pages). I love getting stuck into the newspapers as you never know what you might read, eg. in September, Hurricane season of course, strange marriages, tragic deaths, really odd accidents with ships . . "The bark Granicus, Wilkie, from Cork, lying at J.S. Cambell's [sic] Cove, fell over on her broadside" . . strange expressions (even later for the same ship with an error recorded in her rigging) "The brig Granicus, hence the 2nd inst. for Cork, returned on Saturday last, being too crank to carry sail." and yet another "The Dalusia, (new brig) Norton, hence 14th August for London, has put back to Kamouraska, being too crank to proceed to sea. It is expected she will be able to proceed on her voyage about the end of the week." . . . what does "too crank" mean I wonder ? Also as I'd mentioned to a colleague . . . I was a little surprised to read about the harsh sentencing . . eg. a schoolmaster fined 20 pounds for leaving his window shutters open . . no explanation !! but the worst was an execution for theft from the poor box at the Roman Catholic church. Maybe I should have included those as well, but transcribing a whole year of pages takes such a long time. o Fleets new: o Deutsche Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft Kosmos - DDG Kosmos Another great Fleet for TheShipsList website, submitted by Henk Jungerius. Henk has been a great help to Ted and I and has sent yet another, for Horn Line, which is not ready to upload yet, so It will appear in September. o Passengers: o Lady Sherbrooke - 1st trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 30th April 1826 o Lady Sherbrooke - 2nd trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 6th May 1826 o Lady Sherbrooke - 3rd trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 13th May 1826 o Lady Sherbrooke - 4th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 20th May 1826 o Lady Sherbrooke - 5th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 27th May 1826 o Lady Sherbrooke - 6th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 3rd June 1826 I have now returned to the year 1826 with the Lady Sherbrooke steamboat, to go with the 30 New Swiftsure trips already transcribed for that year. After Lady Sherbrooke will come the Quebec, Chambly and finally the Waterloo. The Waterloo is new to the St. Lawrence Steamboat Company, but not a new boat, formerly called "Le Canadien," built by Jonathan Gorham for Jean-Moïse Raymond, in 1825. I know I've mentioned that the "St. Lawrence Steamboat Company" was not the only company carrying emigrants from Quebec to Montreal, but it is the only one for which I have found these priceless records. A news item I found at the end of the 1826 navigation season, names all the boats in service that year. STEAM BOATS.— The Edmond Henry, the last boat in port, repaired to her winter quarters, Boucherville, on Monday, where the Laprairie and the St. Lawrence Steam-boat Company's boats, Quebec, New Swiftsure, Waterloo, Chambly, Malsham and Lady Sherbrooke are laid up. The latter boat has had her engine taken out, which with one of similar power, now making by Mr. Ward, will be put into the new boat John Molson, now building by Mr. Farrington, which will be ready for launching on the opening of navigation. The Hercules and Richelieu winter at Sorel ; the Lady of the Lake, at Bout de Lisle ; the Montreal at La Tortue. This boat will in the course of the winter, undergo a thorough repair ; be made much larger, and will ply during the navigation of 1827, between Montreal and Longueil. The William Annesley, winters in the Lachine Canal. This boat is also to undergo a thorough repair ; and will during the ensuing summer, ply between Point Fortune and Hull.— Gazette Please share this *new* for TheShipsList website email, with any other list to which you belong if you think it might be of interest or value to those list members (in other words, on-topic). Enjoy ! Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/

"Keith Hazzard" <hazzardsk@dodo.com.au> posted: > Can someone tell me the route taken by ships from Liverpool & Belfast > to the USA in the 1850s. Assuming Keith means sailing ships, I would think most ships from Liverpool to New York would go round the south of Ireland. However if a steady south wind was present, they could go north about Ireland. It was uncommon for sailing ships to make intermediate stops, so Liverpool - Belfast - New York would have been unusual. I think sailings from Belfast to New York would probably have gone north of Ireland. After crossing the Atlantic, shipping routes converged on the Grand Banks, east of Newfoundland, and then generally converged again in the Nantucket area, near Cape Cod, to pick up a New York pilot. -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------