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Title: Coastal steamers moving coal between Dundalk and Scotland, Wales & England
Post by: cafetiere on Monday 22 August 22 20:43 BST (UK)

Hello

I've found a lot of Irish crew lists and shipping agreements showing some of my ancestors working on these boats in the 1860s and 1870s. Does anyone know where I could find more information about them and what they'd actually look like?

I've put 'steamers' in the title but I'm not 100% sure if that's what they were.

Thanks

Title: Re: Coastal steamers moving coal between Dundalk and Scotland, Wales & England
Post by: GR2 on Monday 22 August 22 21:02 BST (UK)

If you know the name of a particular ship, or its captain, it is often easy to track its movements through the shipping news in the papers.

Title: Re: Coastal steamers moving coal between Dundalk and Scotland, Wales & England
Post by: tonepad on Tuesday 23 August 22 05:59 BST (UK)

Dundalk Port & Ships – Information & Archival Sources:

https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/services/archives/research-guides-and-publications/research-guide-2-crew-lists-part-1.pdf


Tony

Title: Re: Coastal steamers moving coal between Dundalk and Scotland, Wales & England
Post by: cafetiere on Tuesday 23 August 22 17:19 BST (UK)

Thank you both for your replies.

@tonepad - that looks to be a really thorough resource. Great stuff.