| Another update. We have been contacted by Briana Huffer who is the International Awareness Coordinator for a Mesothelioma Cancer Centre (Asbestos) and asked to put up a link to their site. This we have done in the left hand column. Anyone wanting to find out about the effects of Asbestos may wish to pay this site a visit. We have featured the progress for compensation due to illness caused by working with asbestos for years now so any more publicity to this subject is welcome. We have added a another link, supplied to us by Mike Griffin, for a Mesothelioma & Asbestos Cancer Resourse Centre, for anyone affected by this condition or their families. A third Mesothelioma link has been added on the request of Douglas Karr, a veteran of the US Navy, dealing mostly from the Military point of view but I am sure information on this site would be of use to all connected with this terrible condition. We have over the years had many people write to us asking about tracing relatives who they think might have served in the Merchant Navy, I'm afraid we hold no records of the crew lists or sailings ourselves but can only point you in the right directions to the people who do hold these records. To save everyone time anyone trying to research relatives on their war time records, please read this page by clicking on the link .. Relative Research Details ..... for all other inquiries please read the 30th November 2001 entry on the Burning Issues page. Burning Issues Page Please note that web site addresses added to your member listing on the Noticeboard should only be relevant to shipping or your family. All others will be removed. Thank you for contacting the site but could I ask anyone writing to us to state clearly in the 'subject' section of an e-mail window the fact that they are writing with reference to the site. Either a ship's name or even just MNO site inquiry. This is so I can pick your mails out from the deluge of rubbish that seems to come my way. For some reason Fred's AOL address seems to be bouncing mails, we know not why so I have removed Fred's address for the moment but anything sent to me is always passed on anyway. Many thanks. Bobbie The Noticeboard is now up and linked at the top of the page. It operates on a similar system to the last one, inasmuch as you register with an ID and post. If you have an forum idea or Shipping Company you think deserves its own section please feel free to contact us and we will add it. Over the years we have been running this site we have received many enquires about the Pension Fund and how to locate them. We have now added a link to their site, at their request, to our link page. We have reproducted the booklet supplied to all prospective employees of British India, circa 1960s, from an original still help by Barrie Wilson. Our thanks to him for supplying the material. We have completed Ben Line as far as our reference books will allow us to go, however if anyone can continue the story we would love to hear from them. Additional information regarding tracing Merchant Navy Records. Click here for information concerning tracing former seagoing relatives. Further information available on the Noticeboard. We would like to thank all the people who have sent in photographs and stories to us. Please continue to do so and anyone else who thinks they may have something of interest please contact us. A number of photographs on this site were purchased from Iain Lovie who lives in New Zealand. A link to Iain's site can be found on our link page. There is also a link to John and Marion Clarkson from whom we have also purchased photographs. On this site most photographs have not been issued to the Public Domain and are reproduced with the owners' consent, others are available from photographic sources already acknowledged, these also appear with the owners' consent. However I have put up some material where it's proved impossible to find alternatives to date but are necessary for the Company History, I will remove the said photographs on request. I would also like to acknowledge the P & O Collection, The World Ship Society and Laxon and Perry. Posted by Bobbie 28th January 2013 2012 |