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Re: [TSL] THESHIPSLIST Digest, Vol 5, Issue 50
Shannah Gillespie <shannahgillespie@earthlink.net> on 03/06/2010

On Mar 5, 2010, at 3:01 AM, theshipslist-request@rootsweb.com wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
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>   1. Old Ships info. (Jim Murphy)
>   2. Re: L-o-n-g voyage (Marj Kohli)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:47:26 +0000
> From: Jim Murphy <jamescmurphy@eircom.net>
> Subject: [TSL] Old Ships info.
> To: Ships list <TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com>
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> Hi,
> 
> I wonder can anyone give me some information/photo or maybe
> know of some web site where I may be able to locate something
> as I have tried the Mirimar index without any luck.
> 
> I am doing a bit of local history on mariners from Passage West, Co. 
> Cork, Ireland
> and have the dischage document belonging to a local ships carpenter 
> relating to the
> following ships:-
> 
> "Eliza Keith" Official No. 13013, 540 tons;  home port Cork. (year 1878)
> 
> "Mary Jane" Official No.65971; Home port Liverpool (year 1878)
> 
> "Electra" Official No. 56818; 543 tons; Home Port-London (year 1869)
> 
> "Sarah M Smith" Official No. 59262; 776 tons; Home port- St. John's N.B. 
> (year 1878)
> 
> "Bewick" Official No.67317; 995 tons; Home Port Newcastle; (year 1876)
> 
> I am not quite sure of the following but it appears to be-
> "Light Brigade" Official No. 45775; 1200 tons; Home Port- Cork (year 1877)
> 
> Any bit of help on any of these ships would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Murphy
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:45:47 -0500
> From: Marj Kohli <marj@uwaterloo.ca>
> Subject: Re: [TSL] L-o-n-g voyage
> To: Kathy <lenerz@att.net>, TheShipsList@rootsweb.com
> Message-ID: <201003041845.o24Ijtfk021300@jubilation.uwaterloo.ca>
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> Kathy
> 
> Judging from the newspapers that year they had a very early winter 
> storm and there were many comments about it and wrecks reported. 
> There was also a report of a late hurricane going up the coast so 
> that might be the reason for the terrible gales which the ships were 
> reporting. The north Atlantic is never a pleasant sail in the late fall.
> 
> Regards..
> 
> Marj
> 
> Regards..
> 
> Marj
> 
> At 09:46 PM 3/3/2010, Kathy wrote:
>> Marj Kohli wrote:
>>> One think I notice in the NY Times is that many of the vessels were
>>> reporting very foggy weather -- so much so that some were several days
>>> in the bay waiting for the fog to lift. I also see ships arriving a few
>>> weeks before the Stanislaus reporting heavy gales.
>>> 
>>> It is possible that the weather played a big part in the length of the
>>> voyage.
>> 
>> Thanks for looking into this. It's been a while since I gathered all the
>> data I presented, so I had forgotten that I had also collected comments
>> about the voyage. There certainly were a lot of reports about heavy gales.
>> 
>> What I'm still wondering is whether that was typical or atypical for the
>> season, why Antwerp ships took longer to cross the ocean than those
>> departing from other ports, and why one ship that left on the same day
>> as another from the same port could take 2 1/2 weeks longer in crossing.
>> Presumably they encountered the same weather phenomena.
>> 
>> Thanks for your ideas,
>> Kathy
>> 
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