[41][42][43] However, the ship's records, kept in the United Kingdom National Archives, indicate conclusively that 802 passengers gave their last place of residence as a country in the Caribbean. 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. No excuse now for getting basic facts about the Windrush passengers wrong! Search and download certificates of alien arrivals (HO 2) and returns and papers (HO 3) on ancestry.co.uk (). The purpose of Windrush's voyage had been to transport service personnel. [82][7] An alternative theory was that a fuel pipe fractured and deposited fuel oil onto a hot exhaust pipe. [10][Note 2] Some official documents, such as the enquiry report into the ship's loss, used "MV Empire Windrush" instead of "HMT". 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). A number of other passengers planned to go to Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester and Plymouth. Graves, Seventh Engineer A. Webster and Eighth Engineer Leslie Pendleton. [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. Many of the passengers on the MV Empire Windrush were former servicemen hoping to secure employment in the UK, or to re-enlist. 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. Windrush settlers arrive in Britain, 1948 treasures of The National Archives (UK). This was covered by newspaper reporters and by Path News newsreel cameras. On arrival a local steel pan band will welcome passengers as they step ashore, with Windrush inspired poetry readings, displays . Source 3. New Jersey Student Learning Standards (NJSLS-S) LA.RL.11-12.10b By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at grade level or above. First called Monte Rosa, it was converted to a troopship and renamed HMT Empire Windrush in 1947. Who are the Windrush generation? [12] When the ship sank in 1954 she had the British Official Number 181561. [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. If you think you may have had a relative on the Windrush, why not use the Goldsmiths database to check? 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. 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?. The Windrush generation arrived in the UK between 1948 and 1971. 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. Browse aliens entry books, 1794-1921, including indexes to certificates of alien arrivals (HO 5/25-28) on ancestry.co.uk (). Also among the Caribbean passengers was a hatter, a retired judge, a potter, a barrister, two hairdressers, two actresses, two piano repairers, two missionaries, three boxers, five artists and six painters. [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. There were 684 males over the age of 12, alongside 257 females of the same age. June 2020: To mark this year's Windrush Day, on 22 June, we have retrieved this article from our archives. Although most passengers travelled beyond Europe, a significant number sailed to the UK. No air passenger lists have survived. However, genealogists sometimes find that their ancestor's name is crossed off of a passenger manifest . The history and impact of the people who characterised mass migration in Britain. [4], Electrical power was initially provided by three, 350-kW DC electric generators, powered by internal combustion engines and installed in the engine room; a fourth generator was added in 1949. As with any typed list there will be cases where the typist simply made a mistake. You might think that would make it pretty easy to get the basic facts about who was on board right. We visited before it finished in February and it was an impressive display. Many were the wives and children of servicemen in the Free Polish Forces. 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. Explore 1,027 individual landing cards representing each passenger who arrived on the MV Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks on 22 June 1948. . A sister ship, the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, visited Tilbury landing stage prior to the outbreak of war in 1939, to collect German . She was taken to Kiel in May 1945, and was there seized by British forces as a prize of war. ", "Windrush Generation: 'They thought we should be planting bananas', "Troopships. The ship was assessed at 13,882GRT, 7,788NRT. There are very few records in The National Archives of passengers before 1878. [4], During the 1920s, Hamburg Sd believed there would be a lucrative business in carrying German emigrants to South America (see German Argentine). We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. Passengers disembarking from Empire Windrush at Tilbury Dock, 22 June 1948 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. PA Wire. 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. There were also 86 children aged 12 and under. Below is a new transcription of the Windrush passenger list held at The National Archives. Advice for the Windrush generation on what to do next. [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. Introduction The MV Empire Windrush arrived at the Port of Tilbury on 21 June 1948 and its passengers disembarked a day later. There were also people from Mexico, Scotland, Gibraltar, Burma and Wales. 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. Odd Claus[no], a Norwegian boy with German parents who was being forcibly taken to Germany, was one of those on board when this happened. [50][Note 3]. Two ships were sunk in Kiel harbour by separate wartime air-raids, Monte Sarmiento in February 1942 and Monte Olivia in April 1945. Jamaican artist and master potter Cecil Baugh was also among the passengers. The UK government was forced to apologise and offered compensation for anyone who had "suffered loss". And . Margaret was puzzled by this as she had never known her uncle by either of those names. Adequate supplies of food, water and fuel were found, and a meal had been prepared in the ship's galley. It refers to the ship MV Empire Windrush . [31], In September 1944, the vessel was damaged by another explosion, possibly from a mine. The emergency generator powered the ship's emergency lighting, bilge pump, fire pump and the radio. The arrival of the Empire Windrush nearly 73. Although the passengers were placed in the lifeboats, they were not launched and the ship was subsequently towed back to Gibraltar. As a result of the initial exhibition at Goldsmiths, we were approached by a number of individuals and organisations wishing to host the exhibition. At the start of World War II, Monte Rosa was allocated for military use. This information will help us make improvements to the website. [5], The five Monte-class vessels were diesel-powered motor ships. It was the last of five Monte-class passenger ships built between 1924 and 1930 and operated by the Hamburg Sud Shipping Company. The bodies of the four men killed were not recovered, and were lost when the ship sank. [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. This article was first published on 27 April 2018. 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. Use the search button on the top right of the list to perform text based searches. 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. There were 684 males over the age of 12, compared to 257 females over the age of 12. "They tell you it is the 'mother country', you're all welcome, you all British. Interestingly, 109 passengers didn't give any address, perhaps indicating they had no fixed plan on arrival. They found no trace of the five crew and the vessel was towed to Colombo. 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. Write a list of the kind of jobs you think people coming to the UK would do. When the people from the Windrush arrived at port, they were faced with discrimination and racism because of the colour . Other services may also be available. LA.RI.11-12.1 Accurately cite strong and thorough textual . 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[83], In 1998, an area of public open space in Brixton, London, was renamed Windrush Square to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Empire Windrush's West Indian passengers. These lists do not include passengers who joined ships en route. Discovery is a catalogue of archival records across the UK and beyond, from which you can search 32 million records. When in port in Argentina, she hosted Nazi rallies for German-Argentine people. Enter the tag you would like to associate with this record and click 'Add tag'. HMT stands for "His Majesty's Transport" and MV for "Motor Vessel". Prior to 1962, the UK had no immigration control for CUKCs, who could settle indefinitely in the UK without restrictions. Click on the links in the landing card . 86 of the passengers were children aged 12 and under. And Jamaican people are happy-go-lucky people. Explore 1,027 individual landing cards representing each passenger who arrived on the MV Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks on 22 June 1948. [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 ship ended up carrying 1,027 passengers, of which 802 hailed from across the Caribbean. A future Mayor of Southwark, Sam King, who had served in England with the wartime RAF, was among them. [25][26] The ship was travelling south, escorted by two flak ships, a destroyer and by German fighters. One of the challenges we set ourselves in 2018 was to transcribe the list into a searchable database. [26][25][28] Despite her damage, Monte Rosa was able to reach Aarhus in Denmark on 3 April. privacy policy, Need more context? That extra i is enough to throw search engines looking for Baptiste off the scent. 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. 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. The HMT Empire Windrush dropped anchor on the 21st June, 1948. The passengers disembarked a day later, on the 22nd June. The most noted occupation, though, was "HD" - or "housing domestic" - meaning a housewife, servant or cleaner. However, the case for Claud and Rudolph being brothers is weakened somewhat when we discover that the younger of the two, Rudolph, who was seventeen according to the passenger list, left the shelter after only a few days and moved to West London, leaving Claud, 23, behind. [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. [7] John Vickers Naisby, the wreck commissioner lead the enquiry. [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. MV EMPIRE WINDRUSH The 'Monte Rosa' was a passenger liner and cruise ship launched by Germany in 1930. 7,788 Net tonnage. 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. 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. 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 ships' top speed was 14 knots (26km/h) (around half the speed of the large trans-Atlantic Ocean liners of the era) but this was considered adequate for both the immigrant and cruise business. 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. 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 . According to the RAF, dozens of the Caribbean passengers were also RAF airmen returning from leave or veterans re-joining the service. For we need to remember . [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. National Official Numbers are different from IMO Numbers. [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. S eventy years ago on Thursday, the Empire Windrush sailed imperiously into Jamaica's capital, greeted by throngs of spectators. They have told of the varied emotions felt on board, including anticipation, optimism, hope and regret. [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 arrival of Empire Windrush was a notable news event. Hostile Environment. PA. People arriving in the UK between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries have been labelled the Windrush generation. [3], In May 1949, Empire Windrush was on a voyage from Gibraltar to Port Said when a fire broke out on board. BECOME A MEMBER . HMT Empire Windrush is best remembered today for bringing one of the first large groups of post-war West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom. [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. She had a depth of 37ft 9in (11.51m). Look at the Country of Last Permanent Residence column on the list. 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. Your search will be made easier if you . 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 . 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. The National Archives houses passenger manifests from vessels arriving to the United States from foreign ports between approximately 1820 and the mid-twentieth century. This information will help us make improvements to the website. 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. [47] There were also the calypso musicians Lord Kitchener, Lord Beginner, Lord Woodbine and Mona Baptiste. Merchant ships in service with the United Kingdom Government during and after World War 2 had names prefixed with the word Empire. 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. Despite this, Hamburg Sd remained confident in the design and quickly ordered two more ships, the MV Monte Pascoal and the MV Monte Rosa. The fact that the two young men had consecutive numbers and both went to Clapham cant be entirely accidental surely? On 22 June 1948, the MV Empire Windrush ship arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex and brought workers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other islands, in response to post-war labour shortages in . The theme of arriving in London was also explored in a Conversation Booth project, which collates oral histories into an ever-changing speech collage. No air passenger lists have survived. 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. ", "Windrush generation: Who are they and why are they facing problems? Those that had nowhere to stay were temporarily housed in a former air raid shelter at Clapham South underground station. Participants took a blank landing card and inserted it into . [33], In 1947, Monte Rosa was assigned to the British Ministry of Transport and registered as a British vessel. After WWII, Britain encouraged immigration from . [13], After the Nazi regime came to power in Germany in 1933, the ship was used by the party to help spread its ideology. After it docked, they paddled out to her from their hiding place on an inflatable rubber boat and attached their mines. 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. [65] Holchu was carrying a cargo of rice and was in good condition aside from a broken mast. [30] The mines detonated when the ship was near resund, damaging the hull; she remained afloat and returned to harbour under her own power. Monte Rosa was named after Monte Rosa, a mountain massif located on the Swiss-Italian border and the second-highest mountain in the Alps. [34][13]Monte Rosa was renamed HMT Empire Windrush on 21 January 1947, for use on the SouthamptonGibraltarSuezAdenColomboSingaporeHong Kong route, with voyages extended to Kure in Japan after the start of the Korean War. [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. What became of the Windrush stowaway, Evelyn Wauchope? 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 Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury on 22 June 1948, carrying 493 passengers from Jamaica wishing to start a new life in the United Kingdom. [14], Monte Rosa ran aground off Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, on 23 July 1934,[15] but was refloated the next day. There were five passengers who started their journey in Barbados and travelled to Port of Spain to board the Windrush there. 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