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[TSL] Deaths At Sea
Paul Booth <peebooth@mac.com> on 07/15/2010

Can anyone on the list know how to go about researching deaths at sea.  
It may have been a voyage from Melbourne to New Zealand in the 1890's.  
I know the passengers names but nothing else.

Thanks

paul


On Jul 15, 2010, at 5:01 PM, theshipslist-request@rootsweb.com wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
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>   1. *new* for TheShipsList website (Sue Swiggum)
>   2. "The Water Witch" (Betty)
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:22:43 -0300
> From: Sue Swiggum <swig@ns.sympatico.ca>
> Subject: [TSL] *new* for TheShipsList website
> To: TheShipsList@rootsweb.com
> Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.1.20100714145534.02374180@pop1.ns.sympatico.ca>
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>                                 *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 July 2010 is  . . .
>
>       o Fleets:
>          o Compagnie Havraise Peninsulaire
>          o Northland Navigation Company, British Columbia, Canada
>          o Canadian Steamship Company, Wales & Quebec
>
> One big Fleet with passenger service and two smaller ones, the last  
> one
> with a pretty short history.
>
>       o Immigration Reports:
>          o Assisted Passage from United Kingdom to South Australia,  
> 1862
>
> This report shows the changes for qualification for Assisted  
> Passage ; Free
> Passage ; Remission Certificate, to South Australia.
>
>       o Passengers:
>          o John Molson - 10th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 12th July  
> 1832
>          o John Molson - 11th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 16th July  
> 1832
>          o John Molson - 12th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 20th July  
> 1832
>          o ...
>          o barque Alice Brooks, from Melbourne, to Port Adelaide 7th
> December 1855 ... with passengers, barque Bielefeldt, from Hamburg, to
> Melbourne 25th November 1855 .. plus two families, barque Asa  
> Sawyer, from
> Hamburg, to Melbourne 26th November 1855
>          o barque Steinwaerder, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 19th
> December 1855
>
> Three more JOHN MOLSON steamboat passenger lists for 1832.  There  
> are still
> a lot of new settlers, even so far into July.   Some more destined  
> for the
> Canada Company.  There are no Emigration Society tickets for the  
> settlers
> on these three trips.
>
> Two more German passenger lists to South Australia for 1855.   The
> Steinwaerder was a regular emigrant vessel to South Australia.   The  
> Alice
> Brooks is something completely different ... the passengers from the  
> barque
> Bielefeldt and the barque Asa Sawyer, had embarked in Hamburg and  
> sailed to
> Melbourne, arriving a day apart.  A few days later most of them sailed
> together on the barque Alice Brooks, to Adelaide.
>
> 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/
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>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:09:53 -0400
> From: "Betty" <bbffrrpp@comcast.net>
> Subject: [TSL] "The Water Witch"
> To: <TheShipsList@rootsweb.com>
> Message-ID: <564CAD83A3FE49BA800BE49CCA45B182@betty94bfd0f73>
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> 	reply-type=original
>
> Hello,
>
> I visited thrift shops and second-hand shops all the time, and I was  
> in one
> today.     A small item I found was a ceramic-tile which had a  
> drawing of a
> "clipper ship" on it,  and the name at the bottom of the tile said,  
> "The
> Water Witch."
>
> I just went on-line to see what I could find and there seems to have  
> been
> different kinds of ships with that name:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Water_Witch_(1851)
>
> http://www.portcolumbus.org/exhibits/waterwitch_02_history.php
>
> http://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/the-water-witch-of-lake-champlain
>
> FYI sites:
>
> http://www.oldandsold.com/articles25/cooper-10.shtml
>
> http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/battles-campaigns/1864/640603.html
>
> (more sites mention the name)
>
> Just an FYI for you.
>
> Betty          (near Lowell, MA)
>
>
> P.S.    I've been corresponding with the Help Desk about a List I  
> wish to
> start up, and they told me about a List I did not know about.     
> Perhaps
> people on this List already know about it:
> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Immigration/SHIPS_FROM_ENGLAND.html
>
>
>
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