DON HAZELDINE

I've always been interested in passenger ships, growing up in Singapore, Aden and Cyprus and then from the age of 11 at school in Dover, England. I've been careful to separate hobby from career, not going to sea but enjoying 20 years in the Armed Services with several years as a helicopter pilot. Now in my early 50s, I continue to work as an executive in the Aerospace industry. Over the years I've amassed a vast collection of shipping books, particularly on ocean liners of the 20th Century, and latterly cruise ships. However, through the internet I'm aware of the great interest in the emigrant ships of the 19th Century to North America and Australia/New Zealand and it is on these passenger ships that I am now concentrating my research.

Since writing The Compendium of the World's Passenger Ships in 1991 and starting the Passenger Ship History Service in 1999, I have been asked to contribute to projects for television, the film industry in America, novels and several reference books. These are the latest to be published:

The Mary - The Story of No.534 by Neil Potter, Jack Frost and Lindsay Frost 1998

Crossing the Line by Barbara Fenton 2003

Echos du Bastingage (Les bateaux de Blaise Cendrars) by Robert Guyon 2002

Penang Postcard Collection 1899-1930s by Khoo Salma Nasution and Malcolm Wade 2003

Click to go back to the Passenger Ships History Service or the Australian Emigrant Ship or Ocean Liner websites