whaling boat

[orcadian]

anyone know where i can get info on the William Scoresby?my great uncle was on it (1926-1930) and have trying to get a list of the crew?

[Tatty Rollox]

..... these Chukchi girls at http://tinyurl.com/g24cb are sitting on an upturned whaler hoping for a word with your great-uncle .....

[shaneystar2]

You could wade through this lot
http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~mhe1000/marmus.htm
Lots of maritme museums hold crew lists and you may strike lucky ..Failing that I would get in touch with The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich giving them any info you have ....they may be able to advise you or at least point you in the right direction.
These may be able to help too
http://www.mightyseas.co.uk/
Although this is mainly merchant ships ..but you never know ..we hit lucky on that one for crew lists of of ships my Dad sailed in whilst in the MN. Good luck with your search.

[kempie]

Do you mean the research vessel RRS William Scoresby?

Some info on that vessel and crew here...

http://www.fpp.co.uk/Letters/fan/Eastman160902 .html

and other links from Google...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=50&hl=en&ne wwindow=1&safe=off&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-47%2 CGGLD%3Aen&q=%22rrs+william+scoresby%22&meta=

[Buenchico]

I apologise, in advance, if this response is wasting your time.

While trying a quick websearch to see if I could find anything about this ship, I came across this photograph from 1938:
http://www.ingenious.org.uk/see/Transport/Aero nautics/?target=SeeLarge&ObjectID={C9A6EC15-C7 8A-0095-23C5-480752AC1EEC}&viewby=images

I note that the picture is part of the Daily Herald Archive, which is now held by the National Museum of Photography Film & Television, in Bradford. It occurs to me that press photographers rarely take a single picture on an assignment. There may well be other pictures, taken at the same time, which show the vessel in more detail and possibly include older members of the crew who may have served alongside your great uncle. If so, you might be able to access them through the museum.

Also, if a picture of the ship from 1936/37 would be of interest to you (and you don't mind forking out between �25 and �35 for a print), you can find one here:
http://rapidttp.com/museum/jmmc/jmmcw.html
(That site also contains the information that the vessel was scrapped in 1954).

More relevant, perhaps, is a 1926 photo of the vessel held in the collection of the National Maritime Museum:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server_process.php?show=c onWebDoc.596&outputFormat=pdf

Apologies again if I've wasted your time,

Chris

[Mortartube]

this may help.

http://members3.boardhost.com/debbylyn/msg/113 .html