Hello Sid Your best bet would be to visit the London Guildhall Museum Library and obtain the reports- taken from Lloyds Shipping Indices of the voyages Lord Byron undertook in 1958. This will probably give you the answers you seek. I am a little sceptical of your father in laws claim as Christmas Is...

Thanks AVM. While waiting for Marty to reply I can add the following info I recently discovered: Zaschitnik Защитник was a transport, 785 GRT owned by Russian Volunteer Fleet- allegedly became Taito Maru 1924 and scrapped 1926 but I am sceptical of this. Need date of build and builder. Strazh Страж ...

Thanks De Dominico. Unfortunately both these ships were in the Baltic not the Pacific. Some naming of vessels at a local level apparently occurred without reference to other ships already carrying the same name elsewhere. For example there appears to have been a vessel called Orlik in the Arctic as ...

The Admiral Stark evacuation convoys of White Russian troops and civilians occurred in Oct-Nov 1922 from Vladivostok (and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy) and [mostly] sailed to Genzan then Busan, then onto Shanghai and then finally Manila. I am trying to locate information on several ships that sailed in...