Huguenots - Family Charts & Calligraphy - Genie Research

Welcome to Nick Vine Hall's family web site ........
Genealogist and Maritime Historian

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The massively updated third edition of Nick's National Australian Guide got great reviews. "If you've have the old 1994 pre-internet edition, you've living in the Stone Age!" says Nick. "The National Library had six copies and they've all been stolen!"

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Since 1995, The Ships Pictures Research Service has aimed to help genealogists and historians worldwide locate pictures of ships of many rigs, periods and nationalities. Our site used to provide researchers with an on-line vessel searching service.

About Ships Pictures

The Ships Picture Database concentrated on immigrant vessels, which sailed the Seven Seas during the last 200 years, as well as ships which family members might have served on as crew, in both war and peacetime. Although pictures of vessels from a wide time period are included, there is a strong emphasis on the years from 1787-1960, as this was the boom time of emigration by sea from Europe to countries like Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada, and South Africa.

Ships Database. We used to maintain the database of over 200,000 entries by name of vessel, which covers the period 825AD to 2002AD on an international basis. This is vastly more comprehensive than the 3000 entries, compiled from 101 published sources in the initial prototype version, Ships Pictures Index, 1491-1991, published in 1995 on three microfiche (Which are available in many Australian libraries for consultation without charge, so please do not request a search from us as this service is no longer available).

The database was built up over seven years from more than 3000 published sources as well as 37 separate public and private ships' picture archive collections. Major collections include the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England; Museum of Galaxidi, Greece; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA; Allen Knight Maritime Museum, Monterey, California, USA; India Club, New York, USA; Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, USA; Steamboat Historical Society of America, Maryland, USA; South African Maritime Museum, Cape Town. It also covers most of the major ships' picture collections in Australia and New Zealand (ie National Library, Canberra; Mitchell Library, Sydney; La Trobe Library, Melbourne; Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Melbourne; John Oxley Library, Brisbane; Battye Library, Perth; Mortlock Library, Adelaide; South Australian Maritime Museum, Port Adelaide; State Library of Tasmania, Hobart; Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington; Wellington Maritime Museum; Auckland Public Library; University of Otago, Dunedin; Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Melbourne Maritime Museum).

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