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TheShipsList website, online since August 1999, will help you find your ancestors on ships’ passenger lists. It also has immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa. Be sure to check the “special projects,” listed below. There are over 3,500 totally free access web-pages with new databases added regularly
You can browse the fascinating page of entries on marriages at sea at http://www.theshipslist.com/Forms/marriagesatsea.html
The photo shows the Wilson Line HQ in Hull, which I refer to in my book The Cumpstons of Hull, Master Mariners http://www.ypdbooks.com/biography/334-the-cumpstons-of-hull-master-mariners-and-their-families-YPD00312.html
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