Crew Agreements are available from 1835.

Merchant ships 1800s. Merchant frigates from the West Indies imported tobacco sugar rum cotton and mahogany. 185 feet long 27 feet beam drawing 16 feet aft and 9 feet forward built of oak and teak. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program is examining and measuring the 48-foot-long wooden remains which are believed to be part of a merchant ship that transported cargo along the Atlantic coast of the US.

Homesickness a common theme in songs about sailors was also a fact of life at sea. The Registers for 1930-1945 were digitised as part of the Plim soll ship data project by the Southampton City Libraries and Archives Services in conjunction with Lloyds Registers Heritage Education Centre. Early in the fifteenth century many merchants were ship owners most often in the form of owning shares in one or several ships though sometimes owning a whole ship.

Draws animals aboard Indianian 204. The crew on those ships would typically contain a captain a 1st mate 2nd mate boatswain shipscarpenter coock 9-10 able and ordinary seamen and the boy rookiie. The history of the whalers on the south coast of New Holland from 1800-1888 By Rod Dickson.

Much of the stock came from the fleet of 1000-ton East India Company ships bringing prized commodities like tea spices textiles furnishings and bullion from Bengal and China. Slave ships also passed in and out of the port. Bartholomew Roberts raises his sword to his two ships after capturing a fleet of eleven English French and Portuguese slave ships off the coast of Africa.

This collection includes Merchant Navy Seamen records held at The National Archives. Picture taken in 1894. Draws collier brig 140.

These records come from The National Archives record series BT112 BT113 BT114 BT115 BT116 BT119 and BT120. A classic three-masted square-rigged merchant ship of the 17th and 18th century invented by the Dutch to be economical in operation carrying the largest cargo and smallest crew possible. But toiling on a merchant ship was hard and dangerous and many seamen were malnourished and disillusioned.