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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

British Southern Whale Fishery : Crew Lists - Whaling History

The British Southern Whale Fishery voyage database includes information about all known British southern whaling voyages from 1775 to 1859. The Crew database, which is primarily the work of Dale Chatwin, contains nearly 14,000 entries for men who served in the British Southern Whale Fishery between 1775 and 1859.

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.

Findmypast - Thames Watermen & Lightermen 1688-2010 $

Search through 99,098 occupational records of The Company of Watermen and Lightermen for the period 1688-2010. The collection includes records from the Corporation of Trinity House, Thomas Doggett coat and badge race and binding and reassignment records from The Company.

Fishermen of Hastings, Sussex, England

Focuses on fishing from the south coast port of Hastings. It includes a lengthy list of those who were fishing from the port in 1623, taken from a document in the National Archives. It also gives information about the various nicknames adopted by the men from fishing families

History of Lascars

History about Asain seamen working on British ships.

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.

Lost Trawlermen of Hull

List of those who worked on the fishing trawlers of Hull, England and lost their lives.

Mariners - British Fishermen

Some general hints on tracing British fishermen. The website of the Mariners Mailing List.

Pilots Returns for Aberdeen 1854-1910

A list of all licensed pilots and their assistants in the port of Aberdeen, Scotland for the years 1854 - 1910.

Ramsgate Lifeboat

Kent, England.

Records of the company of Watermen and Lightermen at Guildhall Library

Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

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.

Scotland's East Coast Fisheries

Scottish Archives Network - Virtual Vault - Lighthouse Records

Selected scanned examples of Scottish lighthouse records.

Society of Genealogists Historical Divers Index

To date the Historical Divers Index comprises approximately 4,900 names of divers, divers tenders, attendants, linesmen, and diving related trades.

Swansea Mariners

A list of mariners registered at the port of Swansea, South Wales.

The Historical Diving Society

United Kingdom.