Having a keen interest in the sea and boats of all kinds, maritime research has become a speciality for me. 

I will consider maritime enquiries of any kind but have assembled a list of areas in which I have specific knowledge:

• Maritime Family History
• Boat building
• Emigrants and Convicts
• Evacuation of Dunkirk 1940 see Dunkirk article
• Cruise Liners and Passengers
• Shipwrecks see William Dampier
• Models see Cicely/lamorna
• Small vessels see Kindly Light
• 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 which has an excellent library and stores thousands of important records. In addition, I work with individual boat owners, often on projects to trace the vessel’s history or to find photographs. I have experience of many sources of photographic records, ranging from the archive of Beken of Cowes to Eileen Ramsay’s collection. I have interviewed survivors from the period of the requested search, but equally 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.