On Mar 5, 2010, at 3:01 AM, theshipslist-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Old Ships info. (Jim Murphy) > 2. Re: L-o-n-g voyage (Marj Kohli) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:47:26 +0000 > From: Jim Murphy <jamescmurphy@eircom.net> > Subject: [TSL] Old Ships info. > To: Ships list <TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <4B8FF22E.3040000@eircom.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi, > > I wonder can anyone give me some information/photo or maybe > know of some web site where I may be able to locate something > as I have tried the Mirimar index without any luck. > > I am doing a bit of local history on mariners from Passage West, Co. > Cork, Ireland > and have the dischage document belonging to a local ships carpenter > relating to the > following ships:- > > "Eliza Keith" Official No. 13013, 540 tons; home port Cork. (year 1878) > > "Mary Jane" Official No.65971; Home port Liverpool (year 1878) > > "Electra" Official No. 56818; 543 tons; Home Port-London (year 1869) > > "Sarah M Smith" Official No. 59262; 776 tons; Home port- St. John's N.B. > (year 1878) > > "Bewick" Official No.67317; 995 tons; Home Port Newcastle; (year 1876) > > I am not quite sure of the following but it appears to be- > "Light Brigade" Official No. 45775; 1200 tons; Home Port- Cork (year 1877) > > Any bit of help on any of these ships would be appreciated. > > Regards, > > Jim Murphy > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:45:47 -0500 > From: Marj Kohli <marj@uwaterloo.ca> > Subject: Re: [TSL] L-o-n-g voyage > To: Kathy <lenerz@att.net>, TheShipsList@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <201003041845.o24Ijtfk021300@jubilation.uwaterloo.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > Kathy > > Judging from the newspapers that year they had a very early winter > storm and there were many comments about it and wrecks reported. > There was also a report of a late hurricane going up the coast so > that might be the reason for the terrible gales which the ships were > reporting. The north Atlantic is never a pleasant sail in the late fall. > > Regards.. > > Marj > > Regards.. > > Marj > > At 09:46 PM 3/3/2010, Kathy wrote: >> Marj Kohli wrote: >>> One think I notice in the NY Times is that many of the vessels were >>> reporting very foggy weather -- so much so that some were several days >>> in the bay waiting for the fog to lift. I also see ships arriving a few >>> weeks before the Stanislaus reporting heavy gales. >>> >>> It is possible that the weather played a big part in the length of the >>> voyage. >> >> Thanks for looking into this. It's been a while since I gathered all the >> data I presented, so I had forgotten that I had also collected comments >> about the voyage. There certainly were a lot of reports about heavy gales. >> >> What I'm still wondering is whether that was typical or atypical for the >> season, why Antwerp ships took longer to cross the ocean than those >> departing from other ports, and why one ship that left on the same day >> as another from the same port could take 2 1/2 weeks longer in crossing. >> Presumably they encountered the same weather phenomena. >> >> Thanks for your ideas, >> Kathy >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> visit TheShipsList Website >> http://www.theshipslist.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 message > > > > ------------------------------ > > 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 50 > *******************************************