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Title: Ships Captains/Ship Masters
Post by: Genetrix on Friday 19 July 19 17:28 BST (UK)

I have several ancestors listed as Ship Captains and Ship Masters in the Banff and Moray areas in the 1800's.  Does anyone know how I could find out which ships they served on and where they sailed to?  I know the son of one of them (Forbes Smith) was a seaman and died at 24 in 1871 in Taganrog, Russia of Cholera.  His family was from Kinloss, Moray.  The father died at sea in 1854.
Moray Libindex gave me lots of information but no mention of ships names or destinations.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Title: Re: SHIPS CAPTAINS/SHIP MASTERS
Post by: seaweed on Friday 19 July 19 20:38 BST (UK)

Take a look here https://www.history.ac.uk/gh/capintro.htm
The early copies of the Mercantile Navy List. Give some information .
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nOkNAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22mercantile%20navy%20list%22&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false
Also http://www.crewlist.org.uk/people/BT124masters
and https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_cr=bt124&_dss=range&_ro=any&_st=adv
and https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_cr=bt127&_dss=range&_ro=any&_st=adv

Title: Re: Ships Captains/Ship Masters
Post by: Genetrix on Saturday 20 July 19 16:02 BST (UK)

Thanks, Seaweed.

Will take a look and see what I can find.