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Consider paying for research. Use this guide for advice on how to find British merchant shipping records known as crew lists and agreements, dating from to the s.
These records can provide brief details of ships, the voyages they took and their crew. Typically, if you can locate a seaman in a crew list you will find out his:. Between and the First World War, when the Merchant Navy did not keep registers of its seamen, agreements and crew lists are the only records you are likely to find of an individual merchant seaman. For advice on finding the same kinds of records prior to see our guide to crew lists and agreements Crew lists and agreements were introduced in A list of the crew accompanied these agreements.
Most types of crew lists and agreements give brief details about the ship, its master and voyages at the date of being filed together with the following information for each crew member:. After only a sample of crew lists and agreements and log books are held at The National Archives. Many do not survive at all whilst significant proportions of those that do survive are held at other archives, most notably:.
The National Archives holds the following proportions of surviving crew lists and agreements after You can, however, search for crew lists and agreements by the names of the seamen recorded on them for the following years:. The National Archives holds all the surviving crew lists and agreements for the Second World War and the succeeding years up to Search in BT for agreements and crew lists of allied foreign ships requisitioned or chartered by the British government in the Second World War.
The records contain details of UK merchant seamen who served on the ships. The rest, up to , have been destroyed. On April 27, , some 1, people—many of them Union soldiers recently freed from Confederate prison camps—perished after this side-wheel steamboat exploded, burned and sank in the Mississippi River. Launched in in Cincinnati, the feet-long, wooden-hulled Sultana was licensed to carry passengers.
Louis, often transporting troops and supplies for the federal government. On April 24, , the Sultana stopped at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to pick up discharged Union soldiers, many of them weak and malnourished from their time in such notorious POW camps as Andersonville and Cahaba. The U. At around 2 a. Hundreds of passengers burned to death, while hundreds more were thrown into the surging Mississippi by the force of the blast or jumped into the water to escape the flames onboard—and ended up drowning.
The sinking of the Sultana was the deadliest maritime disaster in U. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate force to Gen. The foot-long, 2,ton Arctic, which made its maiden transatlantic voyage in , was known for its speed and could cross the Atlantic in just nine days.
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