Alan Meeson <alanmeeson@blueyonder.co.uk> posted: > i am looking for a seaman by the name of james henry peter beatson > who was a crew member around 1919 is there any information available > please, i am tracing my family regards There is not really enough info here. However if you know the name of a ship on which a seaman served, it is often possible to get a crew list (which can be a non-trivial task). A crew list usually contains the name of the previous ship, so it is possible to trace a seaman's career backwards. However in this specific case, a researcher using the name of "jenny" has posted the same query on the Sheffield Indexers Forum http://sheff-indexers.thewholeshebang.org but notes that beatson sailed on the SS Regina in 1919. So if you can find the crew list for the voyage he was on, that should give an entry into his career. Crew lists are really topics for Mariners list, rather than TheShipsList. -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------