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Ancestry.com - 1930 U.S. Federal Census of Merchant Seamen

Census images and every name-searchable index available by subscription. For the first time in 1930, the U.S. Census Bureau enumerated merchant seamen serving on US-flaged merchant vessels on a special Merchant Seamen schedule. Seamen who were to be enumerated on this special schedule were all persons aboard ship, except officers who had regular or fixed places of abode ashore. Returns includes name, age at last birthday, marital status, birth place, citizenship, literacy, occupation & more.

Ancestry.com - Indexes to Seamen's Protection Certificate Applications and Proofs of Citizenship $

Original source: Dixon, Ruth Priest. Indexes to Seamen's Protection Certificate Applications and Proofs of Citizenship. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998.m Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - Register of Seamen's Protection Certificates from the Providence, Rhode Island Customs District, 1796-1870 $

Original source: Rhode Island Historical Society. Register of Seamen's Protection Certificates from the Providence, Rhode Island Customs District, 1796-1870. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

British Mercantile Marine and Fishing Fleets c.1835 - c.1972

British mercantile records of the 19th and 20th centuries. A realistic guide to what is available to those looking into merchant mariners

CLIP - Crew List Index Project

CLIP was set up to improve access to the records of British merchant seafarers of the late 19th century and has gathered the largest database of entries from crew lists for the period 1861 to 1913.

Genealogical Fallout from the War of 1812

By Ruth Priest Dixon for Prologue Magazine, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Irish Mariners - Irish Merchant Seamen 1918-1921

This website has details of over 23,000 Irish born and 1000 Canadian born merchant seamen and their voyages contained in the CR10 series of central index cards held in the Southampton Civic Archives. The CR10 Archive holds 300,000 cards covering the multinational workforce of the British Merchant Marine from early September 1918 and the closing two months of the Great War until December 1921. It only includes men working from British ports. All ranks are covered from master to cabin boy.

Research Guides from The National Maritime Museum

United Kingdom. A listing of the National Maritime Museum's online research guides to their library and collections and to other related maritime sources.

Seamen's Protection Certificate Register Database

The data (sailor names, ages, birth and residences places) included on these pages is taken from the original Registers of Seamen's Protection Certificates issued at the Custom Houses of Fall River, Gloucester, Salem, New Haven, Newport, and Marblehead. There are entries for 23,436 certificates issued from 1796-1871.