Ships

If you would like to know more about the ships, there are special pages available about some of them. There you can learn more about their passengers, their journeys etc. etc. Some even have mailing lists and contacts between descendants of those passengers!

The Lyon
A little information about The ship Lyon and her captain William Pierce.

The Mayflower Webpages
Here you find everything related to genealogy and history on the Mayflower and her passengers.

The Ship Patience Home Page
The three-masted ship “The Patience” made annual runs to Philadelphia from 1748 to 1753, with the exception of 1752, when she arrived at Annapolis.

Links to relatives of the passengers of the Patience

The 'Samuel'
Has also infomation on the "Samuel" Mailing List!

E-mail Contacts for Ancestors on the "Samuel"
Listed alphabetically by passenger name.

The Winthrop Society
Governor John Winthrop and the Puritan colonists who came with him on the "Winthrop Fleet" to plant the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 were the most important and influential single group of Europeans ever to arrive in North America.
The Society means to document the lives and family histories of all these first settlers and their descendants to the fourth generation (to about the year 1700).

125 years Holland America Line
In 1873 mr Plate and Reuchlin founded the Nederlansch - Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij. In 1896 this name was changed to 'Holland - Amerika Lijn'.
As in 1998 the 'Holland - Amerika Lijn' has its 125-year jubileum, the 'Rotterdam ReView', the two monthly magazine made for Rotterdammers all over the world, has an article with lots of pictures on this line and its ships.

Dutch Emigrant Ships and the Holland America line
Pictures and short background on many Dutch Emigration Ships and the Holland America Line.

The Cunard Archives
The Cunard Archives provides information on most Cunard and White Star ships. They have very few records relating to passengers.