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Home  What's New on the MHA Web Site
What's New on the MHA Web Site
- Titanic-Related Documents
The Titanic-Related Documents page contains links to digital copies of documents held at the Maritime History Archive pertaining to the Titanic disaster in 1912.
(Added March 30, 2012)
- 1881 Crew Lists Database
The 1881 Crew List Database contains the names of over 83,200 seamen taken from the first 90 of the 358 boxes comprising all voyages ending in 1881. This is a work in progress with several thousand names being transcribed monthly.
(Added July 27, 2011. Updated February 5, 2013)
- William Button Diaries
The diaries - part of the M. Button and Sons fonds - were authored by William Button, son of Moses, who managed the firm after his father's death. Moses Button (-1901) was a schoolteacher, fisherman and Methodist lay preacher at New Melbourne, Trinity Bay. By 1893 he had opened a general store and was involved in supplying the fishery and general trading.
(Added August 10, 2011)
- Online Payment Form
The Maritime History Archive uses Moneris to handle its online payments. This online transaction form is for payment only. It is NOT an order form. Once you have been advised of the cost by the MHA staff please use the following form to make your payment.
(Added July 27, 2011)
- Mercantile Navy List and Maritime Directory
The Mercantile Navy List provides basic information on each ship, which can be used to trace other records and to compile an outline history of a ship and its owners. The years 1868, 1875, 1876, 1878, 1880, 1882, 1891, 1892, 1896, 1899, 1904, 1907, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925-1938 are now available to search on-line.
(Added July 27, 2011)
- More Than a List of Crew
Learn about crew agreements, read seafarers' stories and work with the sources. See how you might discover more about an ancestor who went to sea.
(Added June 30, 2011)
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