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Stephen Gavin
2003 - 2011
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Brig Elizabeth Jane - launched Nova Scotia 1817 - Lost July 1854 off the coast of Yorkshire - Found Robin Hood's Bay, July 2003

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Books related to Elizabeth Jane and her times
 
Key events and people from 1817-1829
 
Key events and people from 1830-1854
 
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Nautical, genealogical and general links:
 
Sources used to create content for this site
 
Many useful and interesting links to information maritime and genealogical.
Bob Sanders
WALES, ENGLAND & MARITIME FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH
Images
   
Images of brigs, Name-board, beams with treenail holes etc.
 
Paintings of Wrecks by George Weatherill
 
A 1949 talk about George Weatherill
 
A photograph by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe that evokes the Elizabeth Jane's final hours
 
Photographs
   
Photographs of Elizabeth Jane's Registers
 
Photographs of the family Bible of the Robertson
 
A collection of images related to brigs
 
A collection of images posted month by month
 
Maps and Places
 
Where Elizabeth Jane is known to have sailed
 
After her sinking, EJ's crew were set down here
 
Information of her place of launch
 
Where she was sold under 'Bottomry Bond'
 
Port of Registration 1819 -John Cutler Ramsden
 
Her last port of registration
 
Leicester Square home of Francis Hammond, Staymaker
 

Identifying Francis Hammond's House at Leicester Square

 
Newbiggin Rocks - Trapped on them Jan - April 1854
 
Her final resting place
 
Sierra Leone and Elizabeth Jane
 
 
Starting point of her last voyage
 
Possibly Elizabeth Jane's first voyage Kingston Jamaica - Help please
 
A further Nova Scotian connection
 
Documents
   
Her first Canadian Registration Document
 
Her Kingston upon Hull Registration Document
 
Her Ipswich Registration Documents
 
Elizabeth Jane is now in the records of English Heritage
 
Transcription of Grimsby Registration Document of The Samuel
 
Records from Lloyd's Lists
 
GULIELMI IV. REGIS.
An Act for the registering of British Vessels.
28th August 1833.
 
An explanations of shipbuilding language
 
Nautical Magazine 1844 - Sinking of Colina (Collina)
 
On-going Research from 1800-1900 Newspapers On-line
 
Material relating to brig Collina - Colina
 
The will of William Read of Ipswich
Shipowner and Shipbuilder
 
William Read's will and near relatives
 
People
 
Key people associated with the Elizabeth Jane
 
A start at collecting information about her once owners
 
Suffolk Article Account
 
Beginnings of a record of 'others' in her life
 
An ongoing attempt to record Masters and Owners
 
See 'Leicester Square' above: Re: Francis Hammond
 
Ebenezer Robertson, was William Read's Foreman. On William Read's death he took-over Read's ship yard.