Having a keen interest in the sea and boats of all kinds, maritime research has become my speciality. I will consider maritime enquiries of any kind but have assembled a list of areas in which I have specific knowledge:
- Maritime Family History
- Individual Vessel Histories
- Boat building
- Emigrants and Convicts
- Evacuation of Dunkirk 1940
- Cruise Liners and Passengers
- Shipwrecks
- Models
- Small vessels
- Ports of Southern England and Wales
- Coastguard Records
- Merchant Seamen
- Royal Navy genealogy
For information concerning my charges please go to Research Fees.
To carry out this type of work, I largely access the National Maritime Museum library and manuscripts. However, I have also worked with individual boat owners to trace vessel histories or locate photographs. I have interviewed survivors from the past, or where there is no longer any one to talk to I have dredged information out of newspaper articles or company files. Lloyds Register of Shipping or Yachts is often a key starting point before progressing to material which may be less accessible. I can investigate craft from any age and have looked at historic documents concerning objects or people linked to the sea in an incredible variety of ways.