*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 May 2010 is . . . o Passengers: o barque Johann Caesar, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 1st January 1855 o ship Australia, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 4th March 1855 o ... o John Molson - Crew List - 1832 o John Molson - 1st trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 10th May 1832 o John Molson - 2nd trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 14th May 1832 . . partial o John Molson - 3rd trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 18th May 1832 . . nearly 800 passengers The first two passenger lists for 1855 assisted Germans to South Australia. As I've mentioned before, many sources have been checked to try and get these passengers as correct as possible, but if anyone can add to what Robert and I have put online, or offer corrections or omissions, please contact Robert or myself. Usually we have the Quebec newspapers completed first, which show the sailing ship arrivals showing how many setters on each emigrant ship, before we start the steamboat lists, Quebec to Montreal. They will be coming soon, but I couldn't wait as I hadn't added steamboats for a while and I know that there are many people waiting for 1832. ... caveat -- I have included the link to the newspaper on the steamboat lists, but if you click on it right now it will just return a generic template with "coming soon" typed in red. I was just saving myself from having to go back later and add the links to each steamboat list ... I am anxious to get the newspapers for this particular year because there was quite a bit of controversy about how many passengers each boat was carrying. Note that the third JOHN MOLSON trip carried almost 800 passengers !! The 4th also carried 800 and the 6th 900 !!! Those are incredible numbers and as 1832 was a cholera year, authorities were concerned about the overcrowding on the steamboats they made new regulations with limitations .. eg >Boats of the first class to embark 300. These are the John Bull, British >America, Hercules, John Molson, St. George and Voyageur. So .. you can see that they consider the JOHN MOLSON was carrying almost three times the number of passengers which they could safely carry. We have access to the Grosse-Ile Register online, so through the 1832 arrivals, I can hopefully identify some particular families arriving on a particular ship, although 1832 was the first year for the register, so they are a bit spotty. o Fleets: o Ward Line / New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Company Previously we just had the four Ward vessels (2 chartered) which sailed transatlantic, but now Ted has sent the whole Fleet .. 78 vessels. 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/