No-one was to know it at the time but when the ocean liner Fairsea docked in Sydney in 1958, aboard were some passengers destined to become Australian musical legends.
Fairsea passenger lists show the Gibb family, including future Bee Gees Barry, Maurice and Robin, travelled third class from Southampton to make a new life in Australia.
Also aboard was Red Symons, future lead guitarist of Skyhooks.
They and some million others were referred to as "10 pound Poms", the wave of Britons who emigrated to Australia in the 1950s and 1960s for the princely sum of 10 pounds.
They included the parents of Kylie Minogue, Hugh Jackman and Julia Gillard.
Their names are on what's termed the "Fremantle Passenger Lists" of 3.5 million immigrants in the period 1897-1963.
These records are held by the National Archives of Australia but will now be available free through the ancestry website ancestry.com.au.
Ancestry.com.au content director Ben Mercer said these lists captured a crucial point in the story of many Australians.
"Fremantle in Western Australia was the first point where many immigrants stopped off before embarking on their new life in Australia," he said in a statement.
