Landing Cards. [12] When the ship sank in 1954 she had the British Official Number 181561. You need to sign in to tag. Official Number: 181561. According to the ship's passenger lists, more than half of the 1,027 listed official passengers on board (539) gave their last country of residence as Jamaica, while 139 said Bermuda and 119 stated England. Windrush settlers arrive in Britain, 1948 treasures of The National Archives (UK). Late in the evening on 21 June 1948 the MV Empire Windrush sailed up the River Thames and docked at the Port of Tilbury just to the east of London. [36][37] One passenger later recalled that demand for tickets far exceeded the supply, and that there was a long queue to obtain one. I have been part of a call to action for a public holiday called Windrush Day on 22 June, the anniversary of the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks in 1948. At the time, the use of diesel engines was highly unusual in ships of this size, which would have been typically steam-powered. As many of the eyewitness accounts have stated since, the majority of the people on board were men. [38], A commonly given figure for the number of West Indian immigrants on board the Empire Windrush is 492,[2][39][40] based understandably on news reports in the media at the time, which variously announced that "more than 400", "430" or "500" Jamaican men had arrived in Britain. [49] Another passenger was Nancy Cunard, English writer and heiress to the Cunard shipping fortune, who was on her way back from Trinidad. The passengers disembarked a day later, on the 22nd June. The 802 Caribbean citizens onboard were the first of 500,000 Commonwealth citizens who settled in Britain between 1948 and 1971. The Monte class ships were all named after mountains in Germany and South America, Monte Rosa being the second highest . The original passenger list for the journey of the MV Empire Windrush from the Caribbean to Tilbury in May/June 1948 is held at the National Archives at Kew in south west London. London: MV Empire Windrush (The New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd) travelling from Kingston to London. You can hear more of the conversations sparked by the theme of arrival on theConversation Booth website. [14], Monte Rosa ran aground off Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, on 23 July 1934,[15] but was refloated the next day. What was life like on-board the Windrush? WHEN the passenger liner HMT Empire Windrush docked at Port of Tilbury on the River Thames in June 1948 with hundreds of Caribbean immigrants aboard, it was a key moment in the establishment of multicultural Britain.The vessel later came to symbolise the scandalous way in which the government treated many of the so-called Windrush generation - who celebrate a day of recognition on June 22. Many then moved into rented houses and rooms in the Brixton and Clapham areas, working for employers such as the National Health Service or London Transport. HMT Empire Windrush, originally MV Monte Rosa, was a passenger liner and cruise ship launched in Germany in 1930. or a port of another insular possession, in whatsoever class they travel, MUST be fully listed and the master or commanding officer of each vessel carrying such passengers must upon arrival deliver lists thereof to the immigration officer. They had boarded the ship in Jamaica, where the Windrush had docked en route from Australia to England. [citation needed], When visiting South America, the ship was used to spread Nazi ideology among the German-speaking community there. [7], At 6:23am, the first distress calls were transmitted; further SOS calls used the emergency radio transmitter as electrical power had been lost. To commemorate the "Windrush Generation", in 2008, a Thurrock Heritage plaque was unveiled at the London Cruise Terminal at Tilbury. On leaving the ship on 22 June, the then 35-year-old began work the same day handing out rations at the shelter in Clapham where the Windrush passengers were staying. Merchant ships in service with the United Kingdom Government during and after World War 2 had names prefixed with the word Empire. [6] The use of diesel engines reflected the experience Blohm & Voss had gained by building diesel-powered U-boats during World War I. ", "Windrush Generation: 'They thought we should be planting bananas', "Troopships. [82][7] An alternative theory was that a fuel pipe fractured and deposited fuel oil onto a hot exhaust pipe. [23] On 30 March 1944, she was attacked by British and Canadian Bristol Beaufighters. Searchable Passenger List for the Empire Windrush. [61], In February 1950, the ship was used to transport the last British troops stationed in Greece back to the United Kingdom,[62] embarking the First Battalion of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment at Thessaloniki on 5 February, and further troops and their families at Piraeus. A future Mayor of Southwark, Sam King, who had served in England with the wartime RAF, was among them. Many former servicemen took this opportunity to return to Britain with the hopes of finding better employment, including, in some cases, rejoining the RAF; others decided to make the journey just to see what the "mother country" was like. [7], By this time, she was the only survivor of the five Monte-class ships. [73], Around 26 hours after Empire Windrush had been abandoned, she was reached by HMSSaintes of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet 100km northwest of Algiers. However there were various problems. Interestingly, we know of at least a dozen men who claim to have been on the voyage whose names do not appear on the passenger list. Look at the Country of Last Permanent Residence column on the list. [32], On 16 February 1945, Monte Rosa was damaged by a mine explosion near the Hel Peninsula in the Baltic, With a flooded engine room, the ship was towed to the German-occupied Polish port of Gdynia for temporary repairs. Date: 1948 Jun 21 Held by: The National Archives, Kew: Legal status: Public Record(s) Closure status: This is a brilliant resource for anyone with an interest in the Windrush, well done to Goldsmiths for making it available free of charge. Many of the new arrivals stayed in London, finding employment with the NHS and London Transport, and settling into homes in the Brixton and Clapham areas of the capital. Lets focus on the greatness of people from the West Indies., Centre for Academic Language and Literacies, Confucius Institute for Dance and Performance, Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE), Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (MCCS), Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies (STaCS), Search the passenger list and see recreated landing cards. Its previous port of call had been Kingston, Jamaica, but it had also collected passengers from Bermuda, from Trinidad, and from Tampico in Mexico. From 1939 it became a German troopship, and after the Allied Forces defeated Germany in 1945 the British took it as a 'prize of war' and renamed it Empire Windrush. At the start of World War II, Monte Rosa was allocated for military use. There, a group of 50 Royal Marines from 3 Commando Brigade came on board and ship left port for the last time. of the ship's records kept by the National Archives. Jamaican artist and master potter Cecil Baugh was also among the passengers. HMT stands for "His Majesty's Transport" and MV for "Motor Vessel". The Windrush generation arrived in the UK between 1948 and 1971. As on the Windrush many were former service personnel who had served in the RAF during World War 2. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most popular destination recorded by passengers from the Caribbean was London - 296 people gave the city as their planned place of residence. For we need to remember . The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking. There were five passengers who started their journey in Barbados and travelled to Port of Spain to board the Windrush there. As for the ship itself, it made its final voyage in 1954, catching fire and sinking in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of four members of crew. [citation needed], The ship was renamed in British service. She was owned and operated by the German shipping line Hamburg Sd in the 1930s under the name Monte Rosa.During World War II she was operated by the German navy as a troopship.At the end of the war, she was taken by the British Government as a prize of war and renamed the Empire . Margaret was puzzled by this as she had never known her uncle by either of those names. The original passenger list for the journey of the MV Empire Windrush from the Caribbean to Tilbury in May/June 1948 is held at the National Archives at Kew in south west London. There was also an emergency generator outside the engine room. National Official Numbers are different from IMO Numbers. You might think that would make it pretty easy to get the basic facts about who was on board right. [73], Many of the crew and troops abandoned the ship by climbing down ladders or ropes and jumping into the sea, after first throwing overboard any loose items to hand that would float[7] Some were picked up by Windrush's lifeboats, others by a boat from the first rescue ship, which reached the scene at 7.00am. [25][26] The ship was travelling south, escorted by two flak ships, a destroyer and by German fighters. The Story of Windrush More Pages. The UK government was forced to apologise and offered compensation for anyone who had "suffered loss". The. Look at the Ships List website for information about passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa, as well as immigration reports and newspaper records. According to the ship's records, most of the Windrush's passengers got on in Jamaica, but others also joined the vessel in Trinidad, Tampico and Bermuda. Sadly, you would be wrong. 4 SCSA diesel engines (Blohm & Voss, Hamburg), double reduction geared driving two propellers. How do you prove you've been living in the UK? [44], Of the other passengers, 119 were from Britain and 40 from other parts of the world. When you have more than six you have a party.". Due to the technical challenges associated with installing 1027 individual pieces, we had to devise smaller, tailored exhibitions that retained the impact of the original show. Archives, Open Government Licence You might think that would make it pretty easy to get the basic facts about who was on board right. Embarking at Kingston, Trinidad and Bermuda. This was used for British troopships and could stand for "His Majesty's Troopship", "His Majesty's Transport"[8][9] or "Hired Military Transport". Passenger lists are not held by The National Archives after 1960, when air travel became more common. Use the arrows or press 'enter' to move through your search results. Although the passengers were placed in the lifeboats, they were not launched and the ship was subsequently towed back to Gibraltar. Our own transcription will inevitably contain typing errors no matter how careful we were. [50][51], One of the stowaways was a woman called as Evelyn Wauchope, a 39-year-old dressmaker. They included the Polish-Norwegian businessman and humanitarian Moritz Rabinowitz. Passengers who settled locally were highlighted and visitors were encouraged to locate them on a map of London. 09:00 to 17:00. In 1948, Empire Windrush brought one of the early, large groups of postwar West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, carrying 1,027 passengers and two stowaways on a voyage from Jamaica to London. And Jamaican people are happy-go-lucky people. When you come here you realise you're a foreigner and that's all there is to it.". Even after very careful scrutiny, some of the names can only be guessed at. All of its passengers were saved. [Note 1] Empire Windrush's namesake, the River Windrush is a small tributary of the Thames, that flows through the Cotswolds towards Oxford. Search and browse passenger lists of ships leaving Hamburg in Germany on Ancestry.com (). For records of passengers after 1960 it may be worth contacting the relevant shipping line. [3] On arrival, the stowaways were tried at Liverpool Magistrates Court. With up to fifty thousand shoppers passing through per day, the exhibition reached a huge local audience for whom it was especially resonant. Surely if they were brothers they might have stuck together? Unknown to us, at much the same time we were transcribing the list, Goldsmiths University in south London had set up a project to do exactly the same thing. Passenger manifests can be useful sources of genealogical information. [81], Sidney Silverman, lawyer and Member of Parliament, represented the interests of the ship's crew, and during the proceedings tried to show that Windrush was in an unsafe state and was not fit to be at sea - one of the four men killed in the accident, Engineer Leslie Pendleton, had written several letters to his father describing the ship's poor state of repair, many breakdowns, and a previous fire. List of passengers disembarking at London. The passengers (including one stowaway) were the first large group of West Indian immigrants to the UK after the Second World War.. The BBC's handy little pamphlet - Going to Britain? The vestment features a photo montage illustrating aspects of black history in Britain since the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush on June 22 1948, including the original 1948 'British citizen' passport issued to Alford Gardner, a passenger on the ship, and an image of Sam King, another of the ship's passengers, who later became the first black Mayor of Southwark. 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Monte Cervantes sank near Tierra del Fuego in 1930. New Jersey Student Learning Standards (NJSLS-S) LA.RL.11-12.10b By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at grade level or above. With fire spreading rapidly, the order was given to drop the remaining boats into the sea. The strike was mounted for the explicit purpose of sinking her after British reconnaissance had obtained details of the ship's movements. PA Wire. "But then some of us have ended staying for 50.". In 1933, the new German ambassador, Baron Edmond von Thermann[de], arrived in Argentina on the Monte Rosa. At about midday, Saintes began to tow the ship to Gibraltar, at a speed of around 3.5 knots (6.5km/h), but Empire Windrush sank in the early hours of the following morning, Tuesday, 30 March 1954,[7] after having been towed a distance of only around 16 kilometres (8.6nmi). First called Monte Rosa, it was converted to a troopship and renamed HMT Empire Windrush in 1947. The first two ships (MV Monte Sarmiento and MV Monte Olivia) were built for that purpose with single-class passenger accommodation of 1,150 in cabins and 1,350 in dormitories. In 1954, she and her husband moved to the United States. Having transported workers from Jamaica, Tobago, Trinidad, and other islands, the ship MV Empire Windrush travelled across seas to help fill the post-war UK labour shortages. [74] Although some people were in the sea for two hours,[73] all were rescued and the only fatalities were the four crew killed in the engine room. On some pages the typist failed to put a new ribbon in their typewriter when it was clearly needed! They were taken to Gibraltar by the aircraft carrier HMSTriumph, and from there returned to the United Kingdom by air. Partner websites are free to search but there may be a charge to view full transcriptions and download documents. In collaboration with community representatives, the term 'Windrush Generation' has been defined as the people who emigrated from the Caribbean to Britain between the arrival of the MV Empire. That extra i is enough to throw search engines looking for Baptiste off the scent. Monte Rosa was named after Monte Rosa, a mountain massif located on the Swiss-Italian border and the second-highest mountain in the Alps. You can search and filter it using the controls at the top. This matters if someone is trying to trace the history of a particular individual, an ancestor may have been on the Windrush but the fact is not easily found because their record was one of those that was not transcribed. Three days before the ship arrived, Arthur Creech Jones, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, wrote a Cabinet memorandum noting that the Jamaican Government could not legally prevent people from departing, and the British government could not legally prevent them from landing. During the manoeuvre, a bottle of champagne was hoisted from the Monte Rosa to the airship.[17]. London: MV Empire Windrush (The New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd) travelling from Kingston to London. The Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury on 22 June 1948, carrying 493 passengers from Jamaica wishing to start a new life in the United Kingdom. [83], In 1998, an area of public open space in Brixton, London, was renamed Windrush Square to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Empire Windrush's West Indian passengers. The university put on an exhibition about the project. [16] In 1936, the ship made a rendezvous at sea with the airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. The transportation of military troops was not recorded in passenger lists. The vessel was operated for the British Government by the New Zealand Shipping Company,[7][35] and made one voyage only to the Caribbean before resuming normal trooping voyages. Those who had not already arranged accommodation were temporarily housed in the Clapham South deep shelter in south-west London, less than a mile away from the Coldharbour Lane Employment Exchange in Brixton, where some of the arrivals sought work. LA.W.11-12.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. [81], It was thought the rapid failure of the ship's three main electrical generators was due to the fire consuming all the oxygen in the engine-room and stopping the internal combustion engines that powered them. We visited before it finished in February and it was an impressive display. In British service, she continued to be used as a troopship until March 1954, when the vessel caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of four crewmen. [34][13]Monte Rosa was renamed HMT Empire Windrush on 21 January 1947, for use on the SouthamptonGibraltarSuezAdenColomboSingaporeHong Kong route, with voyages extended to Kure in Japan after the start of the Korean War. Based on a new transcription of the Windrush passenger list held at The National Archives, the landing cards reflect a single pivotal moment in the life of each passenger; a snapshot of hope, opportunity and uncertainty. [4], Electrical power was initially provided by three, 350-kW DC electric generators, powered by internal combustion engines and installed in the engine room; a fourth generator was added in 1949. The first exhibition of this type was hosted atCity Hall (17 June - 21 July 2019) on the banks of the Thames. Your search will be made easier if you . Those born in the West Indies who settled in the UK in this migration movement over the following years are now typically referred to as the "Windrush Generation". The MV Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury docks on 21 June 1948. Let us know. Wauchope got married in Britain 1952. Based on a new transcription of the Windrush passenger list held at The National Archives, the landing cards reflect a single pivotal moment in the life of each passenger; a snapshot of hope, opportunity . HMT Empire Windrush is best remembered today for bringing one of the first large groups of post-war West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom. There are very few records in The National Archives of passengers before 1878. A small replica of the ship plastered with newsprint was the facsimile representation in the ceremony. These could be heated either by burning diesel fuel or by using the hot exhaust gases from the main engines. UK passenger lists do not record travel within Europe unless a ship called at more than one European port before travelling further afield. [13], Monte Rosa's entry into service came just as the Great Depression was causing a serious downturn in Hamburg Sd's cruise business. They have made their work freely available and you can access it here: https://www.gold.ac.uk/windrush/passenger-list/. When the Empire Windrush passenger ship docked at Tilbury from Jamaica on 22 June 1948, it marked the start of the postwar immigration boom which was to change British society. Page from the Empire Windrush passenger lists 1948 (BT 26/237) 3. Look at Source 3. Entirely by chance we bumped into Margaret Collins the daughter of passenger number 589, Rudolph Collins, she was visiting at the same time as us. Read about our approach to external linking. Windrush was not the first ship to carry a large group of West Indian people to the United Kingdom, as two other ships has arrived the previous year. The most noted occupation, though, was "HD" - or "housing domestic" - meaning a housewife, servant or cleaner. v3.0, except where otherwise stated, Transcript of the Empire Windrush passenger list (BT 26/1237), Friends of The National Mr Denniston, who died in 2000 aged 86, went on to settle in Brixton, where he worked as a street trader. Four ships were put on standby to assist if the ship had to be abandoned. Have you found an error with this catalogue description? MORE TO EXPLORE. You can search and filter it using the controls at the top. Windrush 492: Passenger List Port of embarkation Arrival port Passenger surname Passenger forename Passenger Age Passenger Occupation Last known place of residence Country of intended permanent residence 1 Trinidad Tilbury Barrow Lucy 19 Student Trinidad England 2 Trinidad Tilbury Baptisite Mona 21 Clerk Trinidad England Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. From 21 January - 21 February 2019, more than 1000 cards went on display at Goldsmiths alongside a mid-century Caribbean front room installation curated by Goldsmiths designer and lecturer Rose Sinclair. [67][68][69], In June 1953, Windrush was one of the ships that took part in the Fleet review that marked the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. 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