Over the past 3 years the National Maritime Museum has been working with colleagues at the National Archives, the Crew List Indexing Project and over 400 e-volunteers around the world to produce a searchable database of merchant seaman who were active during the First World War.
The 1915 Crew List Project was also established to highlight the role of the merchant navy and to commemorate the many merchant seamen who died during the conflict. The online resource will be launched on the Cutty Sark on 30th June 2015 and will make available for the first time a database of over 750,000 names from approximately 25,000 crew lists held by the Museum and the National Archives for 1915.
The database team hopes that this fantastic facility will be of interest to everyone but especially families trying to track down descendants and researchers exploring the role of the merchant navy during the First World War.
Find out more about the project here or follow the project on Twitter at #1915crews.
From 30th June you can search the database for yourself at 1915crewlists.rmg.co.uk
