Lloyd's List is indeed a tremendous source of information on shipping movements (voyages but not ships). The problem is that few libraries do have copies of the films. The Guildhall Library in London, England has LL >from 1827 onwards and a separate index to it >from 1838 to 1937; this film is a copy of the handwritten index :-) I believe Memorial University in St. John's, NF has holdings too and I would welcome hearing of other holdings. Note that Lloyd's List is separate >from (and actually published by a different organization) Lloyd's Register which has information about ships. Both offer barebones information about their subjects. For arrivals in NYC, I tend to check the New York Times as I have easy access to it but was recently told that the New York Herald had much better shipping columns (but again is less widely available). Montreal and Quebec newspapers had good columns about St. Lawrence shipping.
