Can anyone on the list know how to go about researching deaths at sea. It may have been a voyage from Melbourne to New Zealand in the 1890's. I know the passengers names but nothing else. Thanks paul On Jul 15, 2010, at 5:01 PM, theshipslist-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. *new* for TheShipsList website (Sue Swiggum) > 2. "The Water Witch" (Betty) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:22:43 -0300 > From: Sue Swiggum <swig@ns.sympatico.ca> > Subject: [TSL] *new* for TheShipsList website > To: TheShipsList@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.1.20100714145534.02374180@pop1.ns.sympatico.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > *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 July 2010 is . . . > > o Fleets: > o Compagnie Havraise Peninsulaire > o Northland Navigation Company, British Columbia, Canada > o Canadian Steamship Company, Wales & Quebec > > One big Fleet with passenger service and two smaller ones, the last > one > with a pretty short history. > > o Immigration Reports: > o Assisted Passage from United Kingdom to South Australia, > 1862 > > This report shows the changes for qualification for Assisted > Passage ; Free > Passage ; Remission Certificate, to South Australia. > > o Passengers: > o John Molson - 10th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 12th July > 1832 > o John Molson - 11th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 16th July > 1832 > o John Molson - 12th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 20th July > 1832 > o ... > o barque Alice Brooks, from Melbourne, to Port Adelaide 7th > December 1855 ... with passengers, barque Bielefeldt, from Hamburg, to > Melbourne 25th November 1855 .. plus two families, barque Asa > Sawyer, from > Hamburg, to Melbourne 26th November 1855 > o barque Steinwaerder, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 19th > December 1855 > > Three more JOHN MOLSON steamboat passenger lists for 1832. There > are still > a lot of new settlers, even so far into July. Some more destined > for the > Canada Company. There are no Emigration Society tickets for the > settlers > on these three trips. > > Two more German passenger lists to South Australia for 1855. The > Steinwaerder was a regular emigrant vessel to South Australia. The > Alice > Brooks is something completely different ... the passengers from the > barque > Bielefeldt and the barque Asa Sawyer, had embarked in Hamburg and > sailed to > Melbourne, arriving a day apart. A few days later most of them sailed > together on the barque Alice Brooks, to Adelaide. > > 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/ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:09:53 -0400 > From: "Betty" <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> > Subject: [TSL] "The Water Witch" > To: <TheShipsList@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <564CAD83A3FE49BA800BE49CCA45B182@betty94bfd0f73> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Hello, > > I visited thrift shops and second-hand shops all the time, and I was > in one > today. A small item I found was a ceramic-tile which had a > drawing of a > "clipper ship" on it, and the name at the bottom of the tile said, > "The > Water Witch." > > I just went on-line to see what I could find and there seems to have > been > different kinds of ships with that name: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Water_Witch_(1851) > > http://www.portcolumbus.org/exhibits/waterwitch_02_history.php > > http://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/the-water-witch-of-lake-champlain > > FYI sites: > > http://www.oldandsold.com/articles25/cooper-10.shtml > > http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/battles-campaigns/1864/640603.html > > (more sites mention the name) > > Just an FYI for you. > > Betty (near Lowell, MA) > > > P.S. I've been corresponding with the Help Desk about a List I > wish to > start up, and they told me about a List I did not know about. > Perhaps > people on this List already know about it: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Immigration/SHIPS_FROM_ENGLAND.html > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the THESHIPSLIST list administrator, send an email to > THESHIPSLIST-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the THESHIPSLIST mailing list, send an email to THESHIPSLIST@rootsweb.com > . > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to THESHIPSLIST-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of THESHIPSLIST Digest, Vol 5, Issue 131 > ********************************************

Paul, See http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/UKDeathsAtSea.html These records apply to passengers as well as seamen. Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Booth" <peebooth@mac.com> To: <theshipslist@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:34 AM Subject: [TSL] Deaths At Sea > > Can anyone on the list know how to go about researching deaths at sea. > It may have been a voyage from Melbourne to New Zealand in the 1890's. > I know the passengers names but nothing else. > > Thanks > > paul > >