Information please on the SS Mersaric ship

[JenB]

It seems that the ship was ‘Mersario’ and it was a different Rouffignac?

The master of the Mersario was Ambrose Charles de Rouffignac born 1870

https://www.penwithlocalhistorygroup.co.uk/on-this-day/?id=211

See the inset at the bottom of the page which identifies him as master of the Mersario.

[tornado]

thanks Jen for the update and research here . Yes! I have Ambrose in my Family tree . Someone on Ancestry has mixed up the Rouffignac Men and there occupations in the hints section! confusing . Regards .

[JenB]

thanks Jen for the update and research here .

A lot of people have contributed 

[tornado]

Sorry i meant to thank ALL the contributors here . I have learnt so much from there posts and will update my F History files with this info .

[BushInn1746]

Hi all . "Is anyone out there a maritime buff?". My 1st Cousin 5 x rem was a Francis Rouffignac b 1828 Mousehole . According to a few of my records I see that Francis was the Captain of the SS Mersaric ship 1911 . I would like to know more about this ship etc if possible please . Thank you all .

It seems that the ship was ‘Mersario’ and it was a different Rouffignac?

The master of the Mersario was Ambrose Charles de Rouffignac born 1870

https://www.penwithlocalhistorygroup.co.uk/on-this-day/?id=211

See the inset at the bottom of the page which identifies him as master of the Mersario.

A snippet view ...

Mersario
A.C. de Rouffignac

Lloyd's Register 1911 - 1912
https://archive.org/details/HECROS1912ST

It has got the builders and other details, and the columns are titled.

Added:

You should be able to save the whole page if you enlarge the page, then left click or press on the image (sometimes near the page edge on some of these scans) and download, copy, or save just the page only.

[hanes teulu]

By early July 1912 (date derived from newspaper reports) he was on the Holmwood

https://archive.org/details/1913-st-combined/page/n1257/mode/2up

[BushInn1746]

Rouffignac

Proceedings of the Huguenot Society

This stranger buried 13 Oct., 1791 ...
"aged 63 but this 'stranger' was first cousin to Field Marshal, Lord Amherst, the Commander-in-Chief of the English Army, then living. Elizabeth Rouffignac, his widow, was buried at Paul Parish, Mousehole, Cornwall, on 13th May, 1812, aged 72 years."

https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofhug5141hugu

[JenB]

Mark, may I suggest you take a look at tornado’s many posts about the Rouffignac family, you might find that you are looking at areas that have already been covered.