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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: Jessie Teresa Bryant on Wednesday 22 May 19 18:33 BST (UK)
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Hi All,
I am looking for the route taken by the S.S. Bendigo in 1927. I know it went from the UK to Australia but I would love to know more.
Is there a way to access ship logs? Can I find out where they stopped?
My Great Grandfather, John Gill (34) migrated to Australia with his family Elizabeth (Wife 29), William Edward 'Bill' (4), and Winifred 'Win' (3 months). I would love to know what their journey was like so any information would be amazing. I believe they landed in Sydney.
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Hello Jessie
Welcome to Rootschat.
I can't for the moment see any specific list of ports that the ship may have called at, but the image says P & O Australia via the Cape Service. So that would suggest that the ship travelled round the bottom of South Africa before heading on to Australia.
It may well have stopped at Cape Town or Durban.
Hopefully someone with knowledge of how to find out where the ship stopped will be able to help.
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I've just done another search and found a mention of the Bendigo for 1927. It lists just three ports of call these being Malta, Suez and Colombo.
Hopefully this will be a link to the page where I found this:-
http://passengersinhistory.sa.gov.au/node/1003434
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A very warm welcome to Rootschat.
One of the ways to track shipping is via the newspapers of the day. FindMyPast has the Bendigo departing London 26 May 1927.
The Belfast News Letter, 29 April 1927
"Bendigo, for Sydney, left Gravesend, 28th"
Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intelligencer 26 April 1927 has an item about newspapers and sample posts " for the Canary Islands, per S.S Bendigo".
Newspapers on line are available via FindMyPast and British Newspaper Archive - both subscription sites. You might find FindMyPast FREE at your local library/archives.
Or you might try checking the FREE newspaper site of Australian papers - TROVE. They might be tracking the progress from the destination end.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/search?adv=y
good luck
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Northern Whig, 23 May 1927
Bendigo, for Sydney, arrived Table Bay May 20
Belfast News Letter, 25 May 1927
Bendigo, London for Sydney, left Table Bay 22.
The Scotsman, 16 June 1927
Bendigo, for Sydney, arr. Adelaide 14.
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Belfast News Letter, 8 June 1927
Bendigo, London for Sydney, arrived Fremantle 6.
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Thanks all for your help, and for welcoming me!
I will start here. Is there a way to find out what class tickets they would have had (I understand this may be a stretch)?
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They were travelling third class. Their address at the time of leaving was 145 St. Paul's Road, Preston. John Gill was an Engineer.
This looks like their marriage
Marriages Sep 1922
ATKINSON Elizabeth Gill Ulverston 8e 2193
Gill John Atkinson Ulverston 8e 2193
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Here is the passenger list with the GILL family on the SS Bendigo. It is freely available from the National Archives of Australia as are almost all of the passenger lists for ships whose first port of call was Fremantle in Western Australia. http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/11552411/1
To find those free to access digitised passenger lists, you can go to the following link at the NAA website:
http://naa.gov.au/collection/search/
then click on the 'Records search' but pause and do not yet enter anything there.
NOTICE across the blue ribbon that one of the options is Passenger Arrivals. CLICK on that option.
USE the 'less is more' consideration when filling in the dialogue boxes.
In this particular case, fill in GILL and 1927 and Bendigo
You will find them, and others with that surname on two different voyages of that ship in 1927.
Click on the barcode will get you the digitised images , scroll through :)
Enjoy,
JM
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This advert appeared widely in newspapers March/early April 1927
P & O One Class Only Australia via the Cape
£21 and upwards to Cape Town
£37 and upwards to Australia
Next sailings from London - Bendigo ... April 28
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The Scotsman, 6 May 1927
BENDIGO, for Sydney, called Las Palmas 4.
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There were 49 Dreadnought Boys on that voyage.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/78901763 and the lads are noted in this cutting from the Perth WA newspaper The Daily News of 6 June 1927. The lads disembarked Sydney. :)
The vessel docked at No. 8 Wharf, Walsh Bay, Darling Harbour, Sydney (newspaper cutting is hard to read) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16390117 SMH 25 June 1927.
Recent photos http://www.waterway.com.au/projects/heritage-restoration/walsh-bay-wharf-8-9-restoration (No. 1 Walsh Bay is nearest the Harbour Bridge, and they then are 2 and 3 (so both sides are separate numbers); 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9. etc.
JM
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Here is the passenger list with the GILL family on the SS Bendigo. It is freely available from the National Archives of Australia as are almost all of the passenger lists for ships whose first port of call was Fremantle in Western Australia. http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/11552411/1
Other documents for the voyage are here, including the welfare officer's report which starts on page 34.
http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/414392/1
Debra :)
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BENDIGO Official number 145603 only made one return voyage UK-Australia-UK in 1927.
It was usual that she sailed outward via Las Palmas, the Cape-Durban-Columbo.
hanes teulu has outlined her progress from newspaper reports. If you still need it the Logbook of BENDIGO for that voyage, 27 April 1927 - 6 September 1927. is in the British National Archive.
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6000172
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Seaweed,
Good to hear from you. Perhaps you can explain something that puzzled me re. tracking via the papers?
The Bendigo arrived 4 May Las Palmas (Teneriffe?) and I cannot find date of departure. Nonetheless, struck me as quite a time lapse to arrive Table Bay 20 May.
Does it look right to you - any thoughts?/
regards
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Hello hanes teulu,
Basically, it depends on how fast she was travelling.
Its 5288 Nautical miles from Las Palmas, Grand Canaria to Cape Town. Assuming she only bunkered in Las Palmas and sailed the next day, if she was travelling at an economic speed of 15 knots. 15 days would be about right.
The only way to get a totally accurate figure is to consult pages 4 and 5 of the ships logbook. This will tell you to the minute what time she arrived and departed any particular port.
regards SW
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Seaweed,
Diolch
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hanes teulu
Croeso
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Caution re Bendigo: A family I am researching departed London on the S.S. Bendigo on 13th October 1927. It seems that they got no further than Falmouth (maybe it broke down). They then resumed their journey on the S.S. Balranald (also P.&O.) on the 31st October 1927 (the passenger list for the latter is an amended version of the one for Bendigo from London with the departure date, port and ship name changed).