S.S. Bendigo 1927 UK to Australia

[Jessie Teresa Bryant]

Hi All,

I am looking for the route taken by the S.S. Bendigo in 1927. I know it went from the UK to Australia but I would love to know more.

Is there a way to access ship logs? Can I find out where they stopped?

My Great Grandfather, John Gill (34) migrated to Australia with his family Elizabeth (Wife 29), William Edward 'Bill' (4), and Winifred 'Win' (3 months). I would love to know what their journey was like so any information would be amazing. I believe they landed in Sydney.

[Girl Guide]

Hello Jessie

Welcome to Rootschat.

I can't for the moment see any specific list of ports that the ship may have called at, but the image says P & O Australia via the Cape Service.  So that would suggest that the ship travelled round the bottom of South Africa before heading on to Australia.

It may well have stopped at Cape Town or Durban.

Hopefully someone with knowledge of how to find out where the ship stopped will be able to help.

[Girl Guide]

I've just done another search and found a mention of the Bendigo for 1927.  It lists just three ports of call these being Malta, Suez and Colombo.

Hopefully this will be a link to the page where I found this:-

http://passengersinhistory.sa.gov.au/node/1003434

[hanes teulu]

A very warm welcome to Rootschat.
One of the ways to track shipping is via the newspapers of the day. FindMyPast has the Bendigo departing London 26 May 1927.

The Belfast News Letter, 29 April 1927
"Bendigo, for Sydney, left Gravesend, 28th"

Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intelligencer 26 April 1927 has an item about newspapers and sample posts " for the Canary Islands, per S.S Bendigo".
Newspapers on line are available via FindMyPast and British Newspaper Archive - both subscription sites. You might find FindMyPast FREE at your local library/archives.

Or you might try checking the FREE newspaper site of Australian papers - TROVE. They might be tracking the progress from the destination end.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/search?adv=y

good luck

[hanes teulu]

Northern Whig, 23 May 1927
Bendigo, for Sydney, arrived Table Bay May 20

Belfast News Letter, 25 May 1927
Bendigo, London for Sydney, left Table Bay 22.

The Scotsman, 16 June 1927
Bendigo, for Sydney, arr. Adelaide 14.

[hanes teulu]

Belfast News Letter, 8 June 1927
Bendigo, London for Sydney, arrived Fremantle 6.

[Jessie Teresa Bryant]

Thanks all for your help, and for welcoming me!

I will start here. Is there a way to find out what class tickets they would have had (I understand this may be a stretch)?

[Girl Guide]

They were travelling third class.  Their address at the time of leaving was 145 St. Paul's Road, Preston.  John Gill was an Engineer.

This looks like their marriage

Marriages Sep 1922   
ATKINSON    Elizabeth    Gill    Ulverston    8e   2193    
Gill    John    Atkinson    Ulverston    8e   2193

[majm]

Here is the passenger list with the GILL family on the SS Bendigo.  It is freely available from the National Archives of Australia as are almost all of the passenger lists for ships whose first port of call was Fremantle in Western Australia.   http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/11552411/1


To find those free to access digitised passenger lists, you can go to the following link at the NAA website:
http://naa.gov.au/collection/search/
then click on the 'Records search' but pause and do not yet enter anything there.

NOTICE across the blue ribbon that one of the options is Passenger Arrivals.  CLICK on that option.
USE the 'less is more' consideration when filling in the dialogue boxes.
In this particular case, fill in GILL and 1927 and Bendigo

You will find them, and others with that surname on two different voyages of that ship in 1927.
Click on the barcode will get you the digitised images , scroll through 

Enjoy,

JM