Mariner Records at the Noble Maritime Collection

Sailors’ Snug Harbor, founded in 1801 by the will of Robert Richard Randall, was a pioneer in the care of the elderly. Sailors admitted to the Harbor received free room and board and medical care. Over 10,000 mariners ultimately benefitted from the Harbor’s amenities. The Noble Maritime Collection has records for approximately 1,200 of those sailors. These records range from application materials to hospital records to administrative records to correspondence. This database provides information about the sailors for whom we have records.

If you would like more information about a specific mariner or to obtain copies of historic documents, please click the button at the bottom of this page. We also invite you to use the digital resources available through our friends at the Stephen B. Luce Library at SUNY Maritime College, which is the primary repository for the Sailors’ Snug Harbor archives.