*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 2008 is . . . o Fleets: o Union Line, Hamburg One Fleet this month. A website visitor asked about this one, and Ted delivered ! o Arrivals: o Ships to Quebec 1830 (in progress) A stormy start to the Quebec navigation season for 1830. I didn't include ALL the reports of dismasted and abandoned &c. vessels, because there were too many. I have included most of those which pertain to passengers. In April, Europe to New York passages were really short, so I included a table showing some of the passage times, some as short as THIRTEEN days ! 1830 looks like it was a huge emigration year. For example, the New York item mentioned above states "From the 14th to 17th April, there have arrived in New York from Europe, two thousand one hundred and seventeen passengers. " This table (link below) shows the increase in emigration for 1830. Total Emigration from UK 1815 to 1870 http://www.theshipslist.com/Forms/EmigFromUK1815_1870.htm Even if you don't have 1830 emigrants, there are some other general newspaper items. eg. If you like politics, there is an article on whether to grant free navigation on the St. Lawrence and whether to allow American trade to the West Indies ! If you like humour, there is an article about the emigration of one family to Squampash Flatts ... :-} o Passengers: o ship Glentanner, from Plymouth to Port Adelaide 26th November 1855 o barque Royal Albert, from Plymouth to Port Adelaide 1st December 1855 o barque Agincourt, from Plymouth to Port Adelaide 4th December 1855 o ..... o Crocodile 1869 Portsmouth to Quebec (unemployed Admiralty Dockyard Workers) These three SA lists complete the year 1855 for assisted passengers. It was a really big year, with 37 ships with 300-400 +/- passengers on board each ship. GLENTANNER includes mostly Welsh and Irish families, however the young singles are predominantly Irish. The ROYAL ALBERT has a few English and Irish and a larger group of Scottish families and singles, many who were part of the Charter for the Highland and Island Emigration Society emigrants. (they are on separate lists(s)) The AGINCOURT has a mix of English, Welsh and Irish, with the single women almost exclusively Irish. The 1869 CROCODILE list was a terrific coup. The original manifest is online at the Library & Archives of Canada website, however, a few pages of the manifest are missing, namely all the single men and families A-D of the group from the Portsmouth Dockyard. A website visitor, Patricia Lovell, is writing a Paper about the emigration to Canada of the unemployed Admiralty Dockyard Workers, 1869-1870, and found the names of all the Portsmouth passengers included in a newspaper item, so kindly sent them to me, to reconstruct the list. If anyone is able to furnish corrections or additions (like maiden names) to any of the South Australia Lists, please write to Robert or myself. 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/