[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. There were also 86 children aged 12 and under. 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 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 . Read tagging guidelines. 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,. In November 1942, she was one of several ships used for the deportation of Norwegian Jewish people. [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. Have you found an error with this catalogue description? Which parts of the West Indies did most of these . 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. The ship was then towed to Copenhagen, carrying 5,000 German refugees who were fleeing from the advancing Red Army. 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. The theme of arriving in London was also explored in a Conversation Booth project, which collates oral histories into an ever-changing speech collage. The ship carried 1027 passengers and two stowaways on a voyage from Jamaica to London in 1948. [81], No firm cause for the fire was established, but it was thought the most likely cause was that corrosion in one of the ship's funnels, or uptakes, may have led to a panel failing, causing incandescently hot soot to fall into the engine room, where it damaged a fuel oil or lubricating oil supply pipe and ignited the leaking oil. [7], At 6:23am, the first distress calls were transmitted; further SOS calls used the emergency radio transmitter as electrical power had been lost. 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. [7] The enquiry also concluded that Windrush was seaworthy at the time she caught fire. 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. [5], The five Monte-class vessels were diesel-powered motor ships. The attention given to passengers on the Windrush must have been both bewildering and reassuring. No air passenger lists have survived. They had boarded the ship in Jamaica, where the Windrush had docked en route from Australia to England. [16] In 1936, the ship made a rendezvous at sea with the airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. The bodies of the four men killed were not recovered, and were lost when the ship sank. 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. [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. [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. The records are arranged by the port of arrival. But her father is sometimes referred to as Nick and that was not a name he ever used to her knowledge so names can be a bit flexible! 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. 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. Four hundred and ninety-two West Indian passengers had paid . [7], The ship did not have a sprinkler system. Embarking at Kingston, Trinidad and Bermuda. [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. 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. 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. From here, large Caribbean communities developed, contributing to the political, social and musical life of Britain ever since. . I was very excited.". On arrival a local steel pan band will welcome passengers as they step ashore, with Windrush inspired poetry readings, displays . After sea trials, she departed from Hamburg on her first voyage to South America on 28 March, arriving back on 22 June. There, a group of 50 Royal Marines from 3 Commando Brigade came on board and ship left port for the last time. However, genealogists sometimes find that their ancestor's name is crossed off of a passenger manifest . Passenger lists are not held by The National Archives after 1960, when air travel became more common. As many of the eyewitness accounts have stated since, the majority of the people on board were men. 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". Passengers disembarking from Empire Windrush at Tilbury Dock, 22 June 1948 We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. The BBC's handy little pamphlet - Going to Britain? We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. A number of them were anxious about the unfamiliar conditions . Participants took a blank landing card and inserted it into . 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. 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. [74] With 1498 people on board, the ship was almost completely full as it was certified to carry 1541. Advice for the Windrush generation on what to do next. The university put on an exhibition about the project. 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. London: MV Empire Windrush (The New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd) travelling from Kingston to London. She called at Kure and was to sail to the United Kingdom, calling at Hong Kong, Singapore, Colombo, Aden and Port Said. What became of the Windrush stowaway, Evelyn Wauchope? From War to Windrush explores how, despite facing discrimination during their service, many former Black West Indian servicemen and women and civilian war workers returned to settle in Britain after the Second World War. means Household Domestic, someone like a servant or a cleaner). Of these, more than 800 passengers gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean. [26], The attack took place close to the Norwegian island of Utsira. 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. Their names, travel details, and certain other particulars are preserved on the ship's manifest beneath the heading 'Alien Passengers', as opposed to 'British . "We had two or three bands - calypso singers. 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. Let us know. 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. Search and download certificates of alien arrivals (HO 2) and returns and papers (HO 3) on ancestry.co.uk (). [20][21] In September 1943, the ship was to be used for the deportation of Danish Jewish people. [80], An inquiry into the sinking of Empire Windrush was held in London between the 21 June and 7 July 1954. 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. The ship was assessed at 13,882GRT, 7,788NRT. 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). Others were coming to England for the first time. [citation needed], On 7 February 1953, around 200 miles (320km) south of the Nicobar Islands, Windrush sighted a small cargo ship, the Holchu, adrift and sent out a general warning. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. [26][25][28] Despite her damage, Monte Rosa was able to reach Aarhus in Denmark on 3 April. As with any typed list there will be cases where the typist simply made a mistake. After it docked, they paddled out to her from their hiding place on an inflatable rubber boat and attached their mines. The MV Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury docks on 21 June 1948. 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. It presented 341 individual landing cards of those passengers who gave a London address as their intended destination in the UK. [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. Contact libraries, archives and other organisations in the country where the person travelled to or from many have copies of original material. PA. People arriving in the UK between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries have been labelled the Windrush generation. 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. ", "Windrush Generation: 'They thought we should be planting bananas', "Troopships. [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. [7][74] The last person to leave Windrush was the chief officer at 7:30am. Enter the tag you would like to associate with this record and click 'Add tag'. 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. Searchable Passenger List for the Empire Windrush. This was covered by newspaper reporters and by Path News newsreel cameras. [7], Monte Rosa was launched on 13 December 1930[13] and was delivered in early 1931 to Hamburg Sd. 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. 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. [78], The rescue vessels took the passengers and crew to Algiers, where they were cared for by the French Red Cross and the French Army. [7] John Vickers Naisby, the wreck commissioner lead the enquiry. Its first use was as one of Hitler's "Strength through joy" cruise ships and named the MV Monte Rosa. 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. They have told of the varied emotions felt on board, including anticipation, optimism, hope and regret. 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". This iteration of the exhibition coincided with Black History Month and transformed an otherwise empty retail unit in Lewisham Shopping Centre. The ship continued to be used as a troopship after 1945. The HMT Empire Windrush carried many migrant passengers that were encouraged by the British government to leave their Caribbean islands and travel to the UK in order to work to rebuild Britain.. 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. A small replica of the ship plastered with newsprint was the facsimile representation in the ceremony. At the start of World War II, Monte Rosa was allocated for military use. The records can be searched by name of alien, date and port of arrival and country/place of origin. The ship - which dropped anchor on 21 June and released its travellers a day later - was carrying 1,027 passengers, including two stowaways, according to BBC analysis of the ship's records kept by the National Archives. This information will help us make improvements to the website. [4], Windrush carried four oil-burning four-stroke single-acting MAN diesel engines with a combined output of 6,880 horsepower (5,130kW). [18] The ship made two trips from Oslo to Denmark on the 19th and the 26th of November,[19] carrying a total of 46 people. dozens of the Caribbean passengers were also RAF airmen. No air passenger lists have survived. 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. However, due to the poor condition of the document, there may be unintended errors in our transcription. 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/. If you provide contact details, we will be in touch about your request within 10 working days. Graves, Seventh Engineer A. Webster and Eighth Engineer Leslie Pendleton. The stowaways served brief prison sentences, but were eligible to remain in the United Kingdom on their release. The Story of Windrush More Pages. XXIII from Midsummer Derek Walcott SE pp 212-213 SELECTION On Seeing England for the First Time Jamaica Kincaid XXIII from Midsummer Derek Walcott SE pp 214-215 SELECTION Passenger Manifest for the MV Empire Windrush SE pp 216-223 MAKING MEANING Concept Vocabulary gifted; taste; fancy First Read Students Notice, Annotate, Connect, Respond as they read the selection the first time. 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. Mona Baptiste is number seven on the list and her entry is beautifully clear, clear enough to see that her name was typed up as Baptisite. 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. The most noted occupation, though, was "HD" - or "housing domestic" - meaning a housewife, servant or cleaner. 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. [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. George Isaacs, the Minister of Labour, stated in Parliament that there would be no encouragement for others to follow their example. LA.RI.11-12.1 Accurately cite strong and thorough textual . Even the number of passengers has been widely misquoted the number 492 is constantly repeated, even by reputable historians, even though the official list records the names of 1027. Who were they? But she was constructed not in one of the shipyards that then lined the Clyde and the Tyne but in Hamburg, by the German firm Blohm & Voss. [3] On arrival, the stowaways were tried at Liverpool Magistrates Court. "They tell you it is the 'mother country', you're all welcome, you all British. The following morning, 22 June 1948 . [34] Monte Pascoal was damaged by an air-raid on Wilhelmshaven in February 1944; in 1946 she was filled with chemical bombs and scuttled by the British in the Skagerrak. Prior to 1962, the UK had no immigration control for CUKCs, who could settle indefinitely in the UK without restrictions. Archives, Open Government Licence 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. [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. Explore recreations of 1,027 individual landing cards representing each passenger who arrived on the MV Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks on 22 June 1948. [70], Empire Windrush set off from Yokohama, Japan, in February 1954 on what proved to be her final voyage. Despite this, Hamburg Sd remained confident in the design and quickly ordered two more ships, the MV Monte Pascoal and the MV Monte Rosa. [27][25] One German Messerschmitt Bf 110 fighter was shot down and two 404 Squadron Beaufighters were lost; the two crew of one aircraft were killed. A sister ship, the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, visited Tilbury landing stage prior to the outbreak of war in 1939, to collect German . Monte Cervantes sank near Tierra del Fuego in 1930. Two ships were sunk in Kiel harbour by separate wartime air-raids, Monte Sarmiento in February 1942 and Monte Olivia in April 1945. [4], Monte Rosa was 500ft 6in (152.55m) long, with a beam of 65ft 8in (20.02m). Many untruths persist at various times it has been said that the passengers were all male, all Jamaican and all black. [citation needed], When visiting South America, the ship was used to spread Nazi ideology among the German-speaking community there. [1], Among West Indian passengers was Sam Beaver King, who was travelling to the UK to rejoin the RAF. Explore 1,027 individual landing cards representing each passenger who arrived on the MV Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks on 22 June 1948. . Among them were musicians and boxers, craftsmen and clerks, all . Landing Cards. 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. Then I notice an older image - black and white pictures of the passenger liner Empire Windrush flash on the screen. "But then some of us have ended staying for 50.". We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. [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. Mr Richards, interviewed by the BBC in 1998, was, like many others, shocked to discover the difference between the "mother country" he had seen in books and the reality he was confronted with. The history and impact of the people who characterised mass migration in Britain. Click on the links in the landing card column to view a recreation of their card. These vessels were known as Empire ships and numbered around 1,300. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. On 31 March 1947, the SS Ormonde docked at Liverpool after sailing from Jamaica with 241 passengers, including 11 stowaways. Click on the links in the landing card . The MV Empire Windrush. 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. Monarchy; Best Value Days Out; The Story of Windrush; The Story of Windrush. 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 . [22], In September 1943, the Tirpitz was badly damaged by British X-class submarines at Altafjord in Norway, during Operation Source. You might think that would make it pretty easy to get the basic facts about who was on board right. During the peak of migration, various booklets were published and sent to the Caribbean to give would-be adventurers an idea of what would be in store for them when they arrived. [3] But Windrush's 1948 voyage became very well-known; British Caribbean people who came to the United Kingdom in the period after World War II, including those who came on other ships, are sometimes referred to as the Windrush generation. 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. 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. Carrying a documented number of 492 passengers, adults and children docked in Tilbury on the 22nd of June 1948 to begin their new lives. There was also an emergency generator outside the engine room. Passenger lists are not held by The National Archives after 1960, when air travel became more common. "Many of us thought we would come here to get a better education and to stay for about five years," he said. Partner websites are free to search but there may be a charge to view full transcriptions and download documents. 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. Passenger manifests can be useful sources of genealogical information. It was two different things," he said. Reality Check: Could you prove you've been living in the UK? The fire was still burning fiercely more than a day after it started, but a party from Saintes managed to get on board and attach a tow cable. 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. All of its passengers were saved. Explore 1,027 individual landing cards representing each passenger who arrived on the MV Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks on 22 June 1948. [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. The ship - full name HMT Empire Windrush - was originally a German passenger liner given to the UK as war reparation in 1945. After WWII, Britain encouraged immigration from . 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. She was taken to Kiel in May 1945, and was there seized by British forces as a prize of war. Mr Denniston, who died in 2000 aged 86, went on to settle in Brixton, where he worked as a street trader. 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. [4], During the 1920s, Hamburg Sd believed there would be a lucrative business in carrying German emigrants to South America (see German Argentine). 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. List of passengers disembarking at London. The court sentenced them to one day in prison, which effectively meant their immediate release. Become an English Heritage Member and take full advantage of free entry to over 400 sites plus free or discounted . It was a great opportunity for my parents which has benefited me and my childrens children. The emergency generator powered the ship's emergency lighting, bilge pump, fire pump and the radio. MORE TO EXPLORE. This sounded like a relatively straightforward task, albeit a tedious one. 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. The ship also carried two Scotch marine boilers to produce high-pressure steam for some auxiliary machinery. The majority of inward passenger lists from 1878 to 1960 and outward passenger lists from 1890 to 1960 have survived (see below). 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. [citation needed], The ship's designation prefix was also changed, from "MV" (Motor Vessel) to "HMT". 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. The second engineer was able to enter the engine room by wearing a smoke hood, but was unable to close a watertight door that might have contained the fire. This data represents an attempt to faithfully transcribe information in the original Windrush passenger manifest. [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 Empire Windrush nearly 73. [7], By this time, she was the only survivor of the five Monte-class ships. [3], In May 1949, Empire Windrush was on a voyage from Gibraltar to Port Said when a fire broke out on board. 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