View the catalogue description for. 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. [citation needed], The ship was far from full, and so an opportunistic advertisement was placed in a Jamaican newspaper, The Daily Gleaner, offering cheap transport on the ship for anybody who wanted to travel to the UK. 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 She mentioned that she thought her uncle had also been on the Windrush and we used our own database to confirm that there were only two other men called Collins on the ship, passenger number 588, Claud, and 608, Melvin. MORE TO EXPLORE. There were 802 people on board from . PA. People arriving in the UK between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries have been labelled the Windrush generation. However there were various problems. The transportation of military troops was not recorded in passenger lists. Empire Windrush actually started its life as a German vessel called Monte Rosa in December 1930. Look at the Country of Last Permanent Residence column on the list. They have made their work freely available and you can access it here: https://www.gold.ac.uk/windrush/passenger-list/. She called at Kure and was to sail to the United Kingdom, calling at Hong Kong, Singapore, Colombo, Aden and Port Said. The British Nationality Act 1948, giving the status of citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC status) to all British subjects connected with the United Kingdom or a British colony, was going through parliament, and some Caribbean migrants decided to embark "ahead of the game". [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. Published 9 February 2022 Applies to England Contents 1. [70], Empire Windrush set off from Yokohama, Japan, in February 1954 on what proved to be her final voyage. This action may have contributed to the Rescue of the Danish Jews. [7], The ship quickly lost all electrical power as the four main electrical generators were located in the burning engine room; the backup generator was started, but problems with the main circuit breaker made its power unusable. Click on the links in the landing card . The MV Empire Windrush. You can search and filter it using the controls at the top. Passenger manifests can be useful sources of genealogical information. A number of them were anxious about the unfamiliar conditions . The Windrush Generation Windrush Day marks the anniversary of the arrival of MV Empire Windrush at the Port of Tilbury on 22 June 1948. This iteration of the exhibition coincided with Black History Month and transformed an otherwise empty retail unit in Lewisham Shopping Centre. It was a great opportunity for my parents which has benefited me and my childrens children. ", "Windrush generation: Who are they and why are they facing problems? Their names, travel details, and certain other particulars are preserved on the ship's manifest beneath the heading 'Alien Passengers', as opposed to 'British . 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). The ship - full name HMT Empire Windrush - was originally a German passenger liner given to the UK as war reparation in 1945. The theme of arriving in London was also explored in a Conversation Booth project, which collates oral histories into an ever-changing speech collage. Margaret was thrilled when she found her fathers card. 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. Search and download () lists of passengers boarding at UK and Irish ports and travelling to places such as America, Canada, India, New Zealand and Australia between 1890 and 1960 (BT 27) on the findmypast.co.uk website and also on the Ancestry.co.uk website. . [4], Monte Rosa was 500ft 6in (152.55m) long, with a beam of 65ft 8in (20.02m). Prior to 1962, the UK had no immigration control for CUKCs, who could settle indefinitely in the UK without restrictions. Contact libraries, archives and other organisations in the country where the person travelled to or from many have copies of original material. For we need to remember . The fact that the two young men had consecutive numbers and both went to Clapham cant be entirely accidental surely? [25], In June 1944, Max Manus and Gregers Gram, members of Norwegian Independent Company 1 (a British Army sabotage and resistance unit composed of Norwegians), attached limpet mines to Monte Rosa's hull while the ship was in Oslo harbour. London: MV Empire Windrush (The New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd) travelling from Kingston to London. Four hundred and ninety-two West Indian passengers had paid . Sam King, who had served in England with the wartime RAF, was among them. [7][74] The last person to leave Windrush was the chief officer at 7:30am. When the people from the Windrush arrived at port, they were faced with discrimination and racism because of the colour . [7], Official Numbers are ship identifier numbers assigned to merchant ships by their country of registration. You need to sign in to tag. The UK government was forced to apologise and offered compensation. Who were they? [4], This proved to be a great success. The emergency generator powered the ship's emergency lighting, bilge pump, fire pump and the radio. [26] The RCAF and RAF crews claimed two torpedo hits on Monte Rosa; the ship was also struck by eight rockets and by cannon fire. June marks the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, carrying 492 West Indians who were looking to rewrite their fortunes in a Britain desperate for labour. Holchu was later boarded by the crew of a British cargo ship, the Ranee, alerted by Windrush's warning. [55] The ship docked at the Port of Tilbury, near London, on 21 June 1948[52][39] and the 1,027 passengers began disembarking the next day. The arrival of the ship HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks in Essex in 1948, bringing 500 passengers from the Caribbean, is a moment that symbolises the start of post-war . Find step-by-step Literature solutions and your answer to the following textbook question: From which country are all of the British passengers listed on pages 2 and 3 of the passenger manifest for the MV Empire Windrush?. List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States Immigration Officer at Port of Arrival, R.M.S. [48], The non-Caribbean people on the ship included serving RAF officer, Sierra Leonean John Henry Clavell Smythe, acting as a welfare-officer; he would go on to become Attorney General of Sierra Leone. The order was given to wake the passengers and crew and assemble them at their emergency stations, but the ship's public address system was not working, nor were its air and steam whistles, so the order had to be transmitted by word of mouth. v3.0, the name and year of birth of the passenger. Adur, Arun, Blackwater, Bure, Calder, Clyde, Colne, Crouch, Dart, Dee, Derwent, Don, Chelmer, Cherwell, Dovey, Evenlode, Exe, Fal, Frome, Hamble, Humber, Kennet, Lune, Nene, Nidd, Orwell, Ouse, Otter, Ribble, Roden, Roding, Rother, Severn, Soar, Spey, Stour, Swale, Taff, Tamar, Taw, Tern, Teviot, Thames, Torridge, Trent, Tweed, Tyne, Usk, Wandle, Wansbeck, Waveney, Weaver, Welland, Wensum, Wey, Wharfe, Windrush, Witham, Wye, Yare. [72], The ships responding to Windrush's distress call were the Dutch ship MVMentor, the British P&O Cargo liner MVSocotra, the Norwegian ship SSHemsefjell and the Italian ships SSTaigete and SSHelschell. 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. [7][Note 4] The ship was then in the western Mediterranean, off the coast of Algeria, about 30 miles (48km) north-west of Cape Caxine. You might think that would make it pretty easy to get the basic facts about who was on board right. In the event, the emigrant trade was less than expected and the two ships were repurposed as cruise ships, operating in Northern European waters, the Mediterranean and around South America. To commemorate the "Windrush Generation", in 2008, a Thurrock Heritage plaque was unveiled at the London Cruise Terminal at Tilbury. [1], Among West Indian passengers was Sam Beaver King, who was travelling to the UK to rejoin the RAF. 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. They had been granted permission to settle in the United Kingdom under the terms of the Polish Resettlement Act 1947,[44][1][2][45][46] and the Empire Windrush had called at Tampico, Mexico to pick them up. Below is a new transcription of the Windrush passenger list held at The National Archives. At the end of the war, she was taken by the British Government as a prize of war and renamed the Empire Windrush. [7] John Vickers Naisby, the wreck commissioner lead the enquiry. They found no trace of the five crew and the vessel was towed to Colombo. [Note 1] Empire Windrush's namesake, the River Windrush is a small tributary of the Thames, that flows through the Cotswolds towards Oxford. [25] The attacking force consisted of nine aircraft from Royal Air Force (RAF) 144 Squadron, five of which carried torpedoes; and nine aircraft from Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) 404 Squadron, all armed with armour-piercing RP-3 rockets. All of its passengers were saved. [5], The five Monte-class vessels were diesel-powered motor ships. At 6:45am, all attempts to fight the fire were halted and the order was given to launch the lifeboats, with the first ones away carrying the women and children on board[7][74] and the ship's cat. 2023 BBC. The strike was mounted for the explicit purpose of sinking her after British reconnaissance had obtained details of the ship's movements. 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". Attempts to close all watertight doors using the controls on the bridge had also failed. The attention given to passengers on the Windrush must have been both bewildering and reassuring. 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. [7], The Monte-Class ships were named after mountains in Europe or South America. 1948 - The arrival of MV Empire Windrush. Among them were musicians and boxers, craftsmen and clerks, all . Neither Claud or Rudolph had an address to go to so they both spent their first nights in England at the Clapham South Deep Shelter. Windrush settlers arrive in Britain, 1948 treasures of The National Archives (UK). Click on the links in the landing card column to view a recreation of their card. A sister ship, the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, visited Tilbury landing stage prior to the outbreak of war in 1939, to collect German . [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. The. These passengers were the first of up to 500,000 immigrants to the UK who became known as the Windrush generation. As many of the eyewitness accounts have stated since, the majority of the people on board were men. [13], Monte Rosa's entry into service came just as the Great Depression was causing a serious downturn in Hamburg Sd's cruise business. [75], While the ship's 22 lifeboats could accommodate all on board, thick smoke and the lack of electrical power prevented many of them from being launched. You might think that would make it pretty easy to get the basic facts about who was on board right. And . They were single-reduction geared in pairs to two propellers. The first exhibition of this type was hosted atCity Hall (17 June - 21 July 2019) on the banks of the Thames. Records of the 1,027 immigrants who sailed to London on MV Empire Windrush in 1948 are freely available at https://www.gold.ac.uk/windrush/. The rapid depletion of oxygen and the fire's noxious gasses were thought to have also caused the deaths of the four engine room crew. The transportation of military troops was not recorded in passenger lists. Become an English Heritage Member and take full advantage of free entry to over 400 sites plus free or discounted . With fire spreading rapidly, the order was given to drop the remaining boats into the sea. Wauchope got married in Britain 1952. Importantly, visitors were encouraged to share memories of and messages of solidarity with the Windrush Generation in the form of postcards that became part of the exhibition. These landing cards were recreated using information contained in the passenger list. You can filter the list by name, date, place etc by clicking on 'Filter' then '+ Add filter'. There were two main factors that prompted this mass migration to the UK. None of these statements is correct but they still crop up regularly on the internet. You can search and filter it using the controls at the top. [7], By this time, she was the only survivor of the five Monte-class ships. But, despite living and working in the UK for decades, it emerged last year that some of the families of these Windrush migrants have been threatened with deportation, denied access to NHS treatment, benefits and pensions and stripped of their jobs. I think the tag '' should be removed from: Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, BT - Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies, Division within BT - Records of the Commercial, Companies, Labour, Railways and Statistics Departments, BT 26 - Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists, Subseries within BT 26 - Inwards passenger lists, 1948, Available to view free at The National Archives, About our The Monte class ships were all named after mountains in Germany and South America, Monte Rosa being the second highest . No excuse now for getting basic facts about the Windrush passengers wrong! We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. Windrush settlers arrive in Britain, 1948 Transcript, Board of Trade 'Inwards passenger lists, 1948' Subseries within BT 26 Record Summary, Oral history of passengers on the Windrush, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMT_Empire_Windrush&oldid=1146031330, 28 March 193130 June 1931, Hamburg South America Hamburg. As most eyewitness accounts testify, the majority of people on board the ship were men. Surely if they were brothers they might have stuck together? A future Mayor of Southwark, Sam King, who had served in England with the wartime RAF, was among them. [citation needed], When visiting South America, the ship was used to spread Nazi ideology among the German-speaking community there. [7], As the ship was government property, she was not insured. of the ship's records kept by the National Archives. However the German chief of sea transport at Aarhus in Denmark, together with Monte Rosa's captain, Heinrich Bertram, conspired to prevent this by falsely reporting serious engine trouble to the German High Command. On Monday 21st June 1948 recorded was a total of 1027 civilian passengers and military personnel aboard the ship, SS Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks (now Port of Tilbury) in Essex. Although most passengers travelled beyond Europe, a significant number sailed to the UK. [59], While the 1948 voyage of the Windrush is well-known, it was not the first ship to carry West Indian people to the United Kingdom after World War 2. [82][7] An alternative theory was that a fuel pipe fractured and deposited fuel oil onto a hot exhaust pipe. Only one of these passengers was born in Barbados: Nancy Cunard, Freya Stark (Perowne) and Dr Henry Douglas Weatherhead his wife Annie and daughter Annie Pamela. [23] During this time, Monte Rosa was docked alongside the battleship to act as accommodation for the workers. 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. [86][87], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}3700N 211E / 37.000N 2.183E / 37.000; 2.183, Wreck location, in the western Mediterranean Sea. Those that took us out to the Suez Canal Zone, but better still, brought us back home again", "Windrush engineer warned that ship was unsafe archive, 1954", "Recovering Windrush: The deep-sea hunt for a new monument to British history", "The mission to raise the anchor from a shipwreck as a monument to the generation it brought to Britain", Passenger List from the Public Record Office. Arriving at Port of _____, _____, 19__ 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. Search and download certificates of alien arrivals (HO 2) and returns and papers (HO 3) on ancestry.co.uk (). You can add multiple filters by clicking '+ Add filter'. Enter the tag you would like to associate with this record and click 'Add tag'. However, she struck an uncharted rock and sank after only two years in service. [1][2] 802 of these passengers gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean: of these, 693 intended to settle in the United Kingdom.[1]. Major ones to try are the Library of Congress, Washington, the US National Archives and Records Administration, the Ellis Island Foundation, New York, Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa, the National Library of Australia, Canberra, the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Archives New Zealand, and the National Archives of Ireland. means Household Domestic, someone like a servant or a cleaner). [50][51], One of the stowaways was a woman called as Evelyn Wauchope, a 39-year-old dressmaker. Passenger lists are not held by The National Archives after 1960, when air travel became more common. [7] Her passengers included recovering wounded United Nations veterans of the Korean War, and some soldiers from the Duke of Wellington's Regiment who had been wounded at the Third Battle of the Hook in May 1953. What became of the Windrush stowaway, Evelyn Wauchope? [41] The name Windrush, as a result, come to be used as shorthand for West Indian migration,[56] and by extension for the beginning of modern British multiracial society. She was later used as an accommodation and recreational ship attached to the battleship Tirpitz, stationed in the north of Norway, from where Tirpitz and her flotilla attacked the Allied convoys en route to Russia. The UK government was forced to apologise and offered compensation for anyone who had "suffered loss". [58], Many of Empire Windrush's passengers only intended to stay for a few years but, although a number did return, the majority remained to settle permanently. Those that had nowhere to stay were temporarily housed in a former air raid shelter at Clapham South underground station. Many were enticed to cross the Atlantic by job opportunities amid the UK's post-war labour shortage. At the start of World War II, Monte Rosa was allocated for military use. [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. Source 3. 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. They have told of the varied emotions felt on board, including anticipation, optimism, hope and regret. National Official Numbers are different from IMO Numbers. There were five passengers who started their journey in Barbados and travelled to Port of Spain to board the Windrush there. There are very few records in The National Archives of passengers before 1878. The ship carried 1027 passengers and two stowaways on a voyage from Jamaica to London in 1948. "Many of us thought we would come here to get a better education and to stay for about five years," he said. The Story of Windrush More Pages. This is one of the pages from the passenger list of the Empire Windrush, a ship which brought people from the West Indies to the UK. Hear from on of those on board - who's . "But then some of us have ended staying for 50.". Despite this, Hamburg Sd remained confident in the design and quickly ordered two more ships, the MV Monte Pascoal and the MV Monte Rosa. Oswald "Columbus" Denniston, who was the first of the Windrush passengers to get a job according to the Daily Express at the time, told the BBC in 1998 that the atmosphere on the ship was "jolly". List of passengers disembarking at London. In June of that year the ship arrived at Tilbury near London . [citation needed], In 1948, Empire Windrush, which was en route from Australia to Britain via the Atlantic, docked in Kingston, Jamaica, to pick up servicemen who were on leave. It was conceived and curated by Dr John Price, Head of the Department of History, in collaboration with Will Cenci, Public Engagement Manager. 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He notes the explosion happened at 5am, and states that around 200 on board were trapped and drowned as the ship's captain closed the watertight bulkhead doors to control flooding and stop the ship from sinking. 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. Both the passenger list and the Lloyds Shipping Index Voyage are of the HMT Empire Windrush settlers that arrived in Britain, docking on 21 June 1948 and disembarking on 22 June. In his 2008 memoirs, he wrote that as well as German troops, the vessel was carrying Norwegian women with young children, who were being taken to Germany as part of the Lebensborn programme. Which parts of the West Indies did most of these . The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities' Windrush Day Grant Scheme 2023 has a total pot of 750,000, offering grants of between 5,000 to 50,000. MV EMPIRE WINDRUSH The 'Monte Rosa' was a passenger liner and cruise ship launched by Germany in 1930. Britain was about . told the BBC in 1998 that the atmosphere on the ship was "jolly". Empire Windrush, under the name MV Monte Rosa, was the last of five almost identical Monte-class passenger ships[de] that were built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg between 1924 and 1931 for Hamburg Sd (Hamburg South American Steam Shipping Company). After WWII, Britain encouraged immigration from . 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. A military nurse was awarded the Royal Red Cross for her role in evacuating the patients under her care. Britain is . https://www.gold.ac.uk/windrush/passenger-list/, Cheryl Butler A new contributor to Historycal Roots, A remarkable find: Cyril Mellonius on Path News, A black soldier in Edgeware (London) in 1919, A newly discovered image of Cyril Adolphus Stuart, Black sailors in the Royal Navy in World War One. BECOME A MEMBER . Searchable Passenger List for the Empire Windrush. Others were coming to England for the first time. Search Discovery, our catalogue, in DO 131 by name for case histories of all the CORB children evacuated overseas during the Second World War. She was used as a barracks ship at Stettin, then as a troopship for the invasion of Norway in April 1940. The project started as an exhibition at Goldsmiths. [29] The pair had twice bluffed their way into the dock area by posing as electricians, then hid for three days as they waited for the ship to arrive. Windrush was one of around sixty empire ships that were named after British rivers. The Germans were unwilling to risk moving the ship to a German dockyard for repair, so in October Monte Rosa was used to carry hundreds of civilian workers and engineers to Altafjord where they would repair the Tirpitz in situ. For records of passengers after 1960 it may be worth contacting the relevant shipping line. The university put on an exhibition about the project. Of these, more than 800 passengers gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean. Who are the Windrush generation? Successful projects can use their funding to mark Windrush Day 2021 or launch their projects on 22 June to run throughout the year, following the impact of COVID-19. "They tell you it is the 'mother country', you're all welcome, you all British. Dockerill, Geoffrey, "On Fire at Sea" essay in compilation, citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies, Opening Ceremony of the Games of the XXX Olympiad, "Empire Windrush: Cultural Memory and Archival Disturbance", "Lloyd's Register, Navires a Vapeur et a Moteurs", "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 Report of Court (no. research. Find step-by-step Literature solutions and your answer to the following textbook question: From which country are all of the "alien" passengers listed on page 1 of the passenger manifest for the MV Empire Windrush?. Search the passenger list and see recreated landing cards. Among those arriving from the Caribbean were mechanics, carpenters, tailors, engineers, welders and musicians. These lists do not include passengers who joined ships en route. [33], In 1947, Monte Rosa was assigned to the British Ministry of Transport and registered as a British vessel. 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