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From: "Mike Fisher" <>
Subject: Re: [DEV] Death at Sea 1873- Master mariner
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:15:56 -0000
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Hi

You could join the mariners list
or look on the lists website http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/.
They gave me help with my ancestor who died at sea.

Mike in freezing Droitwich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Peat" <>
To: <>
Cc: "Devon L" <>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [DEV] Death at Sea 1873- Master mariner


> Hi Georganne,
> My great grandfather was lost at sea with his fishing smack out of
> Ramsgate in 1914. It is assumed he either was wrecked on the Goodwin
> Sands or his boat hit a mine.
>
> There was no death certificate, but my brother obtained a record of
> his assumed death, with the name of the boat, from the Registry of
> Shipping and Seamen.
> RSS no longer hold all their historic records.
> There is a page on finding records of merchant seamen at
> http://www.gwpda.org/naval/sdata001.htm
>
> As you are probably aware most of them are now in the National
> Archives. Hope this helps
>
> Anne
> On 30 Nov 2008, at 15:58, barlow Georganne wrote:
>
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