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 HMS Hector & Cornelius Finn
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| finnfan |
Posted on 17/03/2009 23:24
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I have been tracing one Cornelius Finn, Commissioned Boatman at Roches Pt, Cork and managed to find him in the UK Archives arriving from Newhaven in 1874. I then found him in Newhaven, Division Brighton Station Birling Gap before leaving to train on the Vanguard just before she sank. His previous station was Rye Harbour (maybe Rye Bay). There is also a reference to P72 No.17 Vol 1. He does not appear in Rye Harbour but.... I am having difficulty working out in the free online ADM archives. There is a HMS Hector Vol 2 ADM175/67 which seems to be a copy of ADM175/68. So I am wondering if anyone would know where HMS Vol 1 would be i.e. what ADM number. The records while free are really big as in 400Mbytes so I rather not have to search them all. I would also be interested to know how the names like HMS Hector relate to the Coastguard stations. I have already downloaded ADM175/20/43/68 if anyone needs info on a particular station on these records. Enjoying the site BTW. Shay |
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| crimea1854 |
Posted on 18/03/2009 07:52
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Hi Shay, and welcome to the Forum. If I can answer you last question first, the rest should make more sense, I hope! From the late 1850's early 1860's each CG District was allocated a warship to act as a Headquarters Ship. These tended to be older ships or those found unsuitable for anything other than coastal duties. The 'Establishment Books' that are in the ADM 175 series, prior to this date, are arranged by individual CG Station across the entire country. With the introduction of the HQ Ships the Books were then arranged by District and Ship e.g. Newhaven/Hector. These 'Ships Establishment Books' are then arranged by the individual CG Station that fell within that CG District. These HQ ships appear to have been changed quite frequently, so if you are working backwards from Hector you need to look next at Irresistable Vol II in ADM 175/66 then 175/65 - this assumes that your man remained working in the same CG District. The advantage of these Ships EBs' is that at the back is usually an index of the men, which does make tracing them a little easier, but one word of caution there are sometimes two indexes, one for 'Fleet' men and the other for 'Civilians'. I made the mistake of consulting what I thought was the index without luck, but subsequently found I was looking at the wrong index! Hope this is of some help. Martin |
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