At 09:03 PM 2006-05-13 +1000, Mokurai wrote: >Hi All, > >I have my family come out to Australia in 1854 onboard the ship FITZJAMES. >Could SKS tell me when this vessel left England and arrived in >Melbourne....and which Port she left from please. Hi Warren, I'll take a stab at this part of your query. I looked on Blaxland.com and found this . . arrival: Fitzjames Source: tsg:542 Origin: Liverpool Destination: 12th Sep 1854 Melbourne tsg:542 Ref: e-57490 . . not sure what the what the Source and Ref: mean, but you could check here http://www.blaxland.com/ozships/plist.htm With an arrival date I then went here . . National Library of Australia _ Australian Periodical Publications http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/ to search the . . The Shipping gazette and Sydney general trade list. http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/issn/14403897.html Volume 11, Number 542 (25 September, 1854) Page 183 . . . and found just a disappointing bare-bones report :-{ September 12: ......... Fitzjames ; John and Lucy ; Black Warrior, from Liverpool ......... It might be worthwhile to poke around to see if you can learn some more. However, this appears to be your ship http://www.geocities.com/mppraetorius/com-fi.htm >> The British ship FITZJAMES .... built at Richibucto, New Brunswick, in 1852, by John James Jardine ..... 15 June 1854, first voyage, Liverpool-Melbourne ..... Master: 1853/54-1856/57 - I. Hoyt ...... [belonged to] "Liverpool 'White Star' Line of Australian Packets" [not to be confused with "White Star Line" of Titanic fame] So to properly answer your first question ship FITZJAMES, sailed from Liverpool June 15th 1854 and arrived at Melboune September 12th 1854. Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/