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Devon Dweller | Report | 4 Nov 2004 11:53 |
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Apparently 'Dreadnought' was an English Paddle Steamer according to this site www(.)fineartemporium(.)com Sheila |
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♥♪ˇ Karen | Report | 4 Nov 2004 12:01 |
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you are right Sheila! Fancy finding out about the ship on an art page!! LOL What would a paddlesteamer be doing out at sea??? |
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♥♪ˇ Karen | Report | 4 Nov 2004 13:07 |
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Well a chief officer on a paddle steamer still sounds pretty impressive to me !! lOL I am easily pleased. |
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Carole | Report | 4 Nov 2004 13:19 |
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I think there have been paddle steamers going up & down the Thames from Gravesend for years, on pleasure trips. I work beside the Thames and regularly see them, even nowadays (none called the Dreadnought though). Not sure what it was doing around the coast in Newhaven at the time of the census! Newhaven is a port, it is used today for ferry crossings to Dieppe in France. By the way, is anyone willing to swap one of their interesting ancestors? I have a surplus of illiterate agricultural labourers that I can trade. Carole |
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BrianW | Report | 4 Nov 2004 14:08 |
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The crew list sounds very much like a small steamer. A fleet of paddleships used to ply along the south coast from the 1850's to the 1950s, calling at places like Margate, Brighton, Bournemouth, Eastbourne etc., anywhere there was a port or a pier. |
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Unknown | Report | 5 Nov 2004 23:55 |
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Sounds like he was in the Navy and probaple a chief Petty Officer |
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PennyDainty | Report | 6 Nov 2004 00:40 |
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Hi Karen, it's definitely NOT Royal Navy. On the Bob Sander ships in port 1881 there are different listings for Royal Navy ships and Other vessels. This one comes under Sussex in the part that's not Royal Navy. http://www.angelfire.*com/de/BobSanders/81Intro.html Hope that's useful Christine |
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♥♪ˇ Karen | Report | 6 Nov 2004 00:56 |
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Thanks for your help everyone. Not knowing the history & geography of England does make this research a bit trickier for me. Would a paddlesteamer go to France? Does the river flow from Gravesend (which is where this family are originally from) to Newport? If it visited ports & peirs, was it like a tourist type ferry? Thanks Yes it does beat the labourers/farmers like most of my ancesters as well !! LOL Karen |
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♥♪ˇ Karen | Report | 6 Nov 2004 01:08 |
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I was just looking at the site Christine suggested, & it seems that of the ships in port in Sussex, a few have the boss as HDS........& they are all from Gravesend, where my bloke comes from. SHips/boats are Vessel: "City Of London" Vessel: "Ben Lomond" Vessel: "Dreadnought" hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm |
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