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. [24], During the winter of 19431944, Monte Rosa continued to shuttle between Norway and Germany. v3.0, the name and year of birth of the passenger. Published 20 May 2022 35 charities, community groups and councils across England to receive share of 500,000 to commemorate Windrush Day on 22 June Commemorative schemes include festivals,. The UK government was forced to apologise and offered compensation for anyone who had "suffered loss". Hear from on of those on board - who's . The British troopship HMT Empire Windrush anchored at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 21 June 1948 carrying hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean hoping for a new life in Britain - alongside hundreds . Surely if they were brothers they might have stuck together? 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. They have told of the varied emotions felt on board, including anticipation, optimism, hope and regret. No excuse now for getting basic facts about the Windrush passengers wrong! Who are the Windrush generation? Others were coming to England for the first time. Windrush passenger landing cards have been reimagined and recreated to represent those destroyed by the Home Office in 2010. The attention given to passengers on the Windrush must have been both bewildering and reassuring. [14], Monte Rosa ran aground off Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, on 23 July 1934,[15] but was refloated the next day. 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. If you don't have an account please register. A number of other passengers planned to go to Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester and Plymouth. PA Wire. A sister ship, the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, visited Tilbury landing stage prior to the outbreak of war in 1939, to collect German . 341 individual landing cards, representing passengers who gave a London address as their intended destination in the UK, were on display (10 August - 1 November 2019). [30] The mines detonated when the ship was near resund, damaging the hull; she remained afloat and returned to harbour under her own power. Windrush settlers arrive in Britain, 1948 treasures of The National Archives (UK). [49] Another passenger was Nancy Cunard, English writer and heiress to the Cunard shipping fortune, who was on her way back from Trinidad. She was taken to Kiel in May 1945, and was there seized by British forces as a prize of war. After it docked, they paddled out to her from their hiding place on an inflatable rubber boat and attached their mines. 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 . 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. One of the challenges we set ourselves in 2018 was to transcribe the list into a searchable database. [citation needed], The ship was renamed in British service. Merchant ships in service with the United Kingdom Government during and after World War 2 had names prefixed with the word Empire. 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. It was conceived and curated by Dr John Price, Head of the Department of History, in collaboration with Will Cenci, Public Engagement Manager. Even after very careful scrutiny, some of the names can only be guessed at. What was life like on-board the Windrush? [6] The use of diesel engines reflected the experience Blohm & Voss had gained by building diesel-powered U-boats during World War I. National Official Numbers are different from IMO Numbers. The bodies of the four men killed were not recovered, and were lost when the ship sank. A whip-round was organised on board ship, raising 50 enough for the fare and 4 pocket money for her. Among those arriving from the Caribbean were mechanics, carpenters, tailors, engineers, welders and musicians. Of these, more than 800 passengers gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean. A military nurse was awarded the Royal Red Cross for her role in evacuating the patients under her care. 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. "Many of us thought we would come here to get a better education and to stay for about five years," he said. Four ships were put on standby to assist if the ship had to be abandoned. We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. After sea trials, she departed from Hamburg on her first voyage to South America on 28 March, arriving back on 22 June. 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. Use the search button on the top right of the list to perform text based searches. [77], In 1954, several of the military personnel on board Empire Windrush during her final voyage received decorations for their role in the evacuation of the burning ship. Write a list of the kind of jobs you think people coming to the UK would do. [12] When the ship sank in 1954 she had the British Official Number 181561. of the ship's records kept by the National Archives. The project started as an exhibition at Goldsmiths. 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. The ship ended up carrying 1,027 passengers, of which 802 hailed from across the Caribbean. (HINT : H.D. Holchu was later boarded by the crew of a British cargo ship, the Ranee, alerted by Windrush's warning. 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. Our view, one that for obvious reasons we cannot prove, is that these men were among the many stowaways known to have been on the ship. For records of passengers after 1960 it may be worth contacting the relevant shipping line. [36][37] One passenger later recalled that demand for tickets far exceeded the supply, and that there was a long queue to obtain one. [65] Holchu was carrying a cargo of rice and was in good condition aside from a broken mast. The MV Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury docks on 21 June 1948. [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. When the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in Essex on June 22, 1948 it was carrying a crowded cargo of around 500 West Indian settlers dressed in their Sunday best. We visited before it finished in February and it was an impressive display. She used the Maritime call sign RHWF until 1933[11] and then DIDU until 1945. The former passenger liner's journey up the Thames on that misty June day is now regarded as the symbolic starting point of a wave of Caribbean migration between 1948 and 1971 known as the "Windrush generation". [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. Flag states still use national systems, which also cover those vessels not subject to the IMO regulations. It was a crucial moment in the story of migration to Britain when this ship docked in Tilbury from the Caribbean. [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. Become an English Heritage Member and take full advantage of free entry to over 400 sites plus free or discounted . The additional arrival of civilian, West Indian immigrants was not expected by the British government, and not welcome. It refers to the ship MV Empire Windrush . 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. The Empire Windrush, on its route through Kingston, Jamaica, docked in Mexico to collect Nowak and another 38 adult women, 26 children and one adult male of Polish nationality. They had learned the ship was to carry 3,000 German troops back to Germany and their purpose was to sink her during the trip. [13], After the Nazi regime came to power in Germany in 1933, the ship was used by the party to help spread its ideology. Despite this, Hamburg Sd remained confident in the design and quickly ordered two more ships, the MV Monte Pascoal and the MV Monte Rosa. This information will help us make improvements to the website. v3.0, except where otherwise stated, US National Archives and Records Administration, Friends of The National [4], Monte Rosa was 500ft 6in (152.55m) long, with a beam of 65ft 8in (20.02m). He disembarked in front of an enthusiastic crowd wearing an SS uniform; he would spend his time in office actively proselytising Nazi ideology. It was not until 1933 that this picked up again, when the older ships, Monte Sarmiento and Monte Olivia reverted to their original role of carrying immigrants to South America while Monte Pascoal and Monte Rosa were used for cruises, to Norway and the United Kingdom,[4] Monte Rosa also continued to carry immigrants to South America, making more than 20 return-trips before the outbreak of World War II. 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. Newspaper reports from the time state how those at the shelter went on to find jobs through the nearest Labour Exchanges (Job Centres), one of which was in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton. She was operated as part of the state-owned Kraft durch Freude ('Strength through Joy') programme, which provided leisure activities and cheap holidays. Select the column header and enter the term you want to filter by. [85], In 2020, a fund-raising effort was begun for a project to recover one of the ship's anchors as a monument to the people of the Windrush generation. Passenger lists are not held by The National Archives after 1960, when air travel became more common. The Story of Windrush More Pages. 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. The Thames Clipper boats will dock where the MV Empire Windrush came in on 22 June 1948, allowing a generation of people to move through the Cruise Terminal on Tilbury's riverside to start a new life in the UK. Page from the Empire Windrush passenger lists 1948 (BT 26/237) 3. The ship we know as the Empire Windrush was built in the early 1930s and originally fitted out as a passenger liner, then converted into a cruise ship. These lists do not include passengers who joined ships en route. Our own transcription will inevitably contain typing errors no matter how careful we were. [1] One of them later recalled they were accommodated in cabins below the waterline, only allowed on-deck in escorted groups and were kept segregated from the other passengers. dozens of the Caribbean passengers were also RAF airmen. Introduction The MV Empire Windrush arrived at the Port of Tilbury on 21 June 1948 and its passengers disembarked a day later. 22 June 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the ship Empire Windrush at Tilbury Dock, Essex, the beginning of a new chapter in the story of London. During World War II she was operated by the German navy as a troopship. If you think you may have had a relative on the Windrush, why not use the Goldsmiths database to check? The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. S eventy years ago on Thursday, the Empire Windrush sailed imperiously into Jamaica's capital, greeted by throngs of spectators. [44], Of the other passengers, 119 were from Britain and 40 from other parts of the world. On arrival a local steel pan band will welcome passengers as they step ashore, with Windrush inspired poetry readings, displays . 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. [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. From here, large Caribbean communities developed, contributing to the political, social and musical life of Britain ever since. Click on the links in the landing card . [7], At around 6:15am on Sunday 28 March, there was a sudden explosion and fierce fire in the engine room that killed the third engineer, two other members of the engine-room crew and the first electrician; a fifth crew member in the engine room and one in the boiler room, both greasers, managed to escape. Passenger Lucile Harris, who settled in Britain from the Caribbean, recalled her arrival in Tilbury in an interview with the BBC in 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Windrush sailing. And . In November 1942, she was one of several ships used for the deportation of Norwegian Jewish people. [16] In 1936, the ship made a rendezvous at sea with the airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. "But then some of us have ended staying for 50.". Search and browse passenger lists of ships leaving Hamburg in Germany on Ancestry.com (). One of Ormonde's passengers was Ralph Lowe, the father of author and poet Hannah Lowe. It was a great opportunity for my parents which has benefited me and my childrens children. In 1954, she and her husband moved to the United States. As most eyewitness accounts testify, the majority of people on board the ship were men. "They tell you it is the 'mother country', you're all welcome, you all British. privacy policy, Need more context? London: MV Empire Windrush (The New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd) travelling from Kingston to London. Each set of lifeboat davits accommodated two lifeboats and without electrical power, raising the wire ropes to lower the second boat was an arduous and slow task. This article was first published on 27 April 2018. They included the Polish-Norwegian businessman and humanitarian Moritz Rabinowitz. 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 [76][77] A Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton from 224 Squadron assisted in the rescue. UK passenger lists do not record travel within Europe unless a ship called at more than one European port before travelling further afield. Below is a new transcription of the Windrush passenger list held at The National Archives. However there were various problems. 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. [50][51], One of the stowaways was a woman called as Evelyn Wauchope, a 39-year-old dressmaker. List of passengers disembarking at London. Attempts to close all watertight doors using the controls on the bridge had also failed. The arrival of Empire Windrush was a notable news event. [47] There were also the calypso musicians Lord Kitchener, Lord Beginner, Lord Woodbine and Mona Baptiste. [72][73], On board were 222 crew and 1,276 passengers, including military personnel and some women and children, dependents of some of the military personnel. 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 Empire Windrush - the passenger liner which brought one of the first groups of post-war Caribbean immigrants to the UK - was used by the Nazis to transport Jews bound for concentration . The ship was then towed to Copenhagen, carrying 5,000 German refugees who were fleeing from the advancing Red Army. These landing cards were recreated using information contained in the passenger list. However, he stated that the government was opposed to this immigration, and all possible steps would be taken by the Colonial Office and the Jamaican Government to discourage it. ", "Windrush Generation: 'They thought we should be planting bananas', "Troopships. The transcription work took us three months but we have been able to use the database to check at the touch of a button whether someone was on board. [82][7] An alternative theory was that a fuel pipe fractured and deposited fuel oil onto a hot exhaust pipe. [5], The five Monte-class vessels were diesel-powered motor ships. [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. This sounded like a relatively straightforward task, albeit a tedious one. Empire Windrush One misty morning in June 1948 a former German cruise boat, the Empire Windrush, steamed up the Thames to the Tilbury Dock, London, where she disembarked some 500 hopeful passengers from Kingston, Jamaica: 492 was the official figure, but there were several stowaways as well. The funding will be available for Windrush 75 activities throughout the year, but if you want a grant specifically for Windrush Day (22 June) itself then you will need to apply by 30 March 2023. There were 172 overall on board - 96 from the Caribbean. All of its passengers were saved. 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. 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. These could be heated either by burning diesel fuel or by using the hot exhaust gases from the main engines. told the BBC in 1998 that the atmosphere on the ship was "jolly". The ship was assessed at 13,882GRT, 7,788NRT. [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. Compare the list you have written to the occupations (jobs) shown on the passenger list, are they the same? By Windrush Team - June 20, 2020 2349 0 The countries at which passengers embarked were Trinidad, Jamaica, Bermuda and Mexico. At the end of the war, she was taken by the British Government as a prize of war and renamed the Empire Windrush. Wauchope got married in Britain 1952. 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. When you come here you realise you're a foreigner and that's all there is to it.". You might think that would make it pretty easy to get the basic facts about who was on board right. ", "Windrush generation: Who are they and why are they facing problems? LA.RI.11-12.1 Accurately cite strong and thorough textual . Margaret was puzzled by this as she had never known her uncle by either of those names. "We had two or three bands - calypso singers. [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 ship, originally known as MV Monte Rosa, was a German cruise ship that had been used as a troop transporter during the Second World War. She was seized b. [3], In May 1949, Empire Windrush was on a voyage from Gibraltar to Port Said when a fire broke out on board. What became of the Windrush stowaway, Evelyn Wauchope? At the start of World War II, Monte Rosa was allocated for military use. 2023 BBC. A number of them were anxious about the unfamiliar conditions . [26], The attack took place close to the Norwegian island of Utsira. [7], As the ship was government property, she was not insured. Source 3. The strike was mounted for the explicit purpose of sinking her after British reconnaissance had obtained details of the ship's movements. [66] The fate of Holchu's crew remains unknown and the incident is cited in several works on Ufology and the Bermuda Triangle. The first group arrived on the ship MV Empire Windrush in June 1948. . Among them were musicians and boxers, craftsmen and clerks, all . Many of the passengers on the MV Empire Windrush were former servicemen hoping to secure employment in the UK, or to re-enlist. As with any typed list there will be cases where the typist simply made a mistake. This was covered by newspaper reporters and by Path News newsreel cameras. Monte Cervantes sank near Tierra del Fuego in 1930. 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. [23] During this time, Monte Rosa was docked alongside the battleship to act as accommodation for the workers. The ship - full name HMT Empire Windrush - was originally a German passenger liner given to the UK as war reparation in 1945. 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 . The original list is typed rather than handwritten as some were, so far so good, but unfortunately the entries are very unclear in places, so much so that some of the names are very difficult to decipher. Among them were John Hazel, 21, a boxer, Harold Wilmot, 32, a case maker and John Richards, 22, a carpenter, seen here in a photograph taken on arrival - alongside their records from the National Archives passenger list. Passengers who settled locally were highlighted and visitors were encouraged to locate them on a map of London. [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. 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. Sadly, you would be wrong. Even when the ship was in the English Channel, the Evening Standard dispatched an aircraft to photograph her from the air, printing the story on the newspaper's front page. 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. [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. [1], The ship also carried 66 people whose last country of residence was Mexico they were a group of Polish people who had been detained and transported to Siberia by the Soviets after the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, but had escaped and made their way to Mexico via India and the Pacific. Advice for the Windrush generation on what to do next. 8,530 long tons deadweight (DWT)Length: 500 ft 3 in (152.48 m)Beam: 65 ft 7 in (19.99 m)Propulsion: 4 SCSA diesel engines (Blohm & Voss, Hamburg), double reduction geared driving two propellers.Speed: 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h) |} The Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury on 22 June 1948, carrying 493 passengers from Jamaica wishing . 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). [80], An inquiry into the sinking of Empire Windrush was held in London between the 21 June and 7 July 1954. The. For records of passengers after 1960 it may be worth contacting the relevant shipping line. An exhibition reimagining and recreating Windrush passenger landing cards and exploring the textiles of the Caribbean Front Room Across Black History Month 2020, the windows of Catford's iconic Broadway Theatre will be transformed into an exhibition space telling the compelling story of the passengers who arrived on the MV Empire Windrush and of post-war Caribbean settlement in the UK. Have you found an error with this catalogue description? This information will help us make improvements to the website. The majority of inward passenger lists from 1878 to 1960 and outward passenger lists from 1890 to 1960 have survived (see below). Resources 1 - videos 4 There are many videos online on the voyage of the MV Empire Windrush in 1948, its historical background and its effects on the Caribbean community and their life in [7], At 6:23am, the first distress calls were transmitted; further SOS calls used the emergency radio transmitter as electrical power had been lost. For we need to remember . 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. The purpose of Windrush's voyage had been to transport service personnel. The most noted occupation, though, was "HD" - or "housing domestic" - meaning a housewife, servant or cleaner. Click on the links in the landing card column to view a recreation of their card. Interestingly, 109 passengers didn't give any address, perhaps indicating they had no fixed plan on arrival. Help us improve catalogue descriptions by adding tags. While doing our own transcription we identified another problem, anyone relying on the details transcribed from that list onto sites like Ancestry.co.uk may be disappointed as, in many cases, where a name was hard to read, whoever did the transcription work for Ancestry simply gave up and moved onto the next legible entry. They were taken to Gibraltar by the aircraft carrier HMSTriumph, and from there returned to the United Kingdom by air. It was always our intention to make the database available to anyone who wanted to use it but, recently, we discovered that we dont need to. Arriving at Port of _____, _____, 19___ Until then, cruise holidays had been the preserve of the rich. 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. [7], Monte Rosa was launched on 13 December 1930[13] and was delivered in early 1931 to Hamburg Sd. Monte Rosa had the German Official Number 1640. Read tagging guidelines. [20][21] In September 1943, the ship was to be used for the deportation of Danish Jewish people. Its previous port of call had been Kingston, Jamaica, but it had also collected passengers from Bermuda, from Trinidad, and from Tampico in Mexico. - was one such guide. 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