Welcome to Éire & Sea Genealogy
Tracing Mercantile Marine Officers
This blog concentrates on Joseph W COPPIN and suggests places to look for mercantile marine officers records.
The photograph was taken by Chris McKenna at the sunken garden at Tower Hill. Statue by Charles Wheeler.
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) The picture has been cropped.
The O’Donoghue Sisters
This post tells the stories of my grandmother, Lucy O’DONOGHUE and her eldest sister Mary Bridget.
The Importance of Addresses
Own photo
Addresses within crew lists can help identify a seafarer and their family relationships. Sometimes the address uncovers unexpected information about a person. This was the case when I researched Henry AIREY, a waiter aboard the SS Dwinsk, who like my grandfather was lost after the Dwinsk was torpedoed.
Tracing WW1 Merchant Seafarers
photo: Merchant Navy Memorial cc-by-sa/2.0 - Paul Robson - geograph.org.uk/p/1206048
This blog outlines how to go about tracing a merchant seaman in WW1. It explains where and how to find crew lists and logbooks.
The Stories Of Those Who Died: Part One
Photo by Aleks Dahlberg on Unsplash
This post starts to outline details about the lives of those who were lost from the Dwinsk. Eugene Corri was a young apprentice officer. Jonathan Ackers (Stafford) and John Balmer (Hockey) were two young men from Liverpool who chose not to serve under their birth names.
Those Who Died
The Crew Members in Lifeboat Six
Adrift for Days
John Reid and the SS Dwinsk
The story of the sinking of SS Dwinsk 18 June 1918
