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Muster-rolls

Looking up information in the database

The database of muster-rolls on this website contains 77.043 records from 34.552 seamen and 17.098 reports of 4.935 ships.

With the menu on the left side you can get more background information about this database.

• Family name
  If you start your search by using a person´s family name, you can thereafter easily find the name of the ship connected with this person, as well as the names of the other crew members.
• Ship´s name
  If you know the name of a ship, you can here find the muster-rolls connected with this ship. By selecting a muster-roll you can get the names of the ship´s crew.
• Place of residence
  If you know a seaman´s place of residence, you can search for him here. Thereafter you can find the name of the ship on which he went to sea and, by clicking on the muster-rol, the names of the ship's crew.