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Steamer Great Eastern

No Captain's sworn statement on this manifest

List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Steam Ship "Great Eastern" whereof John Vine Hall is Master from Southampton. Burthen 18,900 Tons.

Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, Country to which they severally belong, and country in which they intend to become inhabitants. Last column is designated for those who died on voyage but the column has been eliminated since no one died on the voyage.

 1  Gen^l Westropp Watkins  	 61  male    Army  Great Britain/Southampton  Great Britain
 2  Lt. Col A. Harrison     	 54  male    Army  Great Britain/Southampton  Great Britain
 3  Maj F. Balfour          	 32  male    Army  Great Britain/Southampton  Great Britain
 4  Capt. A. Drummond       	 30  male    Army  Great Britain/Southampton  Great Britain
 5  Hon^b Capt. T. Carnegie R.N. 45  male    Navy  Great Britain/Southampton  Great Britain
 6  Capt. L. B. McKinnon R.N.    46  male    Navy  Great Britain/Southampton  Great Britain
 7  Capt. W. Morris R.N.         58  male    Navy  Great Britain/Southampton  Great Britain
 8  Capt. Henry Compton R.N.     50  male    Navy  Great Britain/Southampton  Great Britain
 9* Mr. De Gooch                 45  male          Great Britain/Southampton  Great Britain
10  Mrs. De Gooch                35  female        Great Britain/Southampton  Great Britain
11* Mr. J. S. Oakford            40  male          U States                   U States
12  Mr. Geo. Stewart Roebuck     50  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
13  Mr. Geo. Wilkes              59  male          U States                   U States
14  Mr. N. A. Woods              36  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
15  Mr. F. R. McKenzie           24  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
16* Mr. J. Stainthorp            40  male          U States                   U States
17  Mrs. J. Stainthorp           35  female        U States                   U States
18  Miss Mary A. Hubert          32  female        Great Britain              Great Britain
19  Mr. Wm. Barber               55  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
20  Mr. C. F. Field              26  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
21  Mr. Robt. Morrison           23  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
22  Mr. Geo. Hawkins             47  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
23  Mr. Francis Simpson          20  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
24  Mr. Francis Hubbard          21  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
25  Rev Wm T. Southey            32  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
26  Mr. Samuel Taylor            29  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
27  Mr. Geo. D. Brookes          25  male          U States                   U States
28  Mr. Thos Hornby              30  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
29  Mr. Henry Muifield           24  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
30  Mr. Henry Mason              42  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
31  Mr. Henry Martin Wells       36  male          U States                   U States
32  Mr. Walter Cave              51  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
33  Mr. Michael Juraveloff       19  male          Russia                     Russia
34  Mr. John Juraveloff          20  male          Russia                     Russia
35  Professor P. Buresford       44  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
36  Mr. D. Kennedy               36  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
37  Mr. G. E. Taylor             15  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
38  Mr. Lucah Colburne           30  male          U States                   U States
39  Mr. N. S. Russell            26  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
40  Mr. Jno Skinner              30  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
41  Mr. Alex Holley              27  male          U States                   U States
42  Mr. Michael Murphy           31  male          U States                   U States
43  Mr. Thos. Bold               52  male          Great Britain              Great Britain
44  Mr. H. B. Box                47  male          Great Britain              Great Britain

Transcriber's notes:
 *  The use of an * indicates an omission or error made by the original recorder, 
    or an indication of further information to be found in the transcriber's notes.

 ?  The use of a ? indicates a word or letters that could not be read due to the 
    the condition of the original document.

The original master of the Great Eastern had been killed in an accident onboard during 
trial runs.  The ship could carry 4000 passengers and yet this voyage only contained 44.  

#9 It is believed that the #9 passenger is actually Sir Daniel Gooch, although the original 
manifest clearly says De Gooch.  Sir Gooch was appointed by Isambard Brunel, the designer 
of the Great Eastern, as locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway.  Sir 
Gooch bought the ship Great Eastern in the summer of 1865.  Sir Daniel Gooch wrote of 
the ship at it's demise - 'Poor old ship: you deserved a better fate'.

Sir Daniel Gooch was appointed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as locomotive superintendent 
of the Great Western Railway at the age of twenty-one. He designed the finest locomotives 
of the period and in 1865 became Chairman of the G.W.R. and rescued it from bankruptcy. 
In 1866 he supervised the laying of the transatlantic cable between Britain and North 
America. 

#11 J.S. Oakford owned a line of San Francisco clippers including the Empress of the Sea.

#12 George Steuart. Roebuck born in 1807 went to St. John's college 1826.
Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Feb. 11, 1825. [Only s. of George, Esq., of Russell Place, 
Fitzroy Square, London.] B. May 5, 1807 at Bath. Matric. Lent, 1826; B.A. 1829. Adm. 
at the Middle Temple, Oct. 31, 1832. Called to the Bar, May 25, 1838. (Inns of Court; 
Law Lists; Foster, Men at the Bar.)  

#16 There is a John Steinthorp age 65 living in New York in 1880 that is a patentee.  
His wife, Helen is 60.

The Great Eastern

The Great Eastern was a huge steamship designed by the famous engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. At the time of her launch in 1858 she was the largest ship in the world.

Although the design of the Great Eastern was brilliant, in some ways the story of the ship is a sad one. Brunel's mighty vessel was considered a commercial failure as a passenger ship. After a brief period as a cable-laying ship she ended her career as a floating billboard before being scrapped in 1888.

This voyage in 1860 was her maiden voyage.
The Great Eastern is perhaps best remembered as the ship that helped lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable. It was the only ship large enough to carry the length of cable required for the task. They say it took five months to load the cable. Then after several attempts to successfully lay a continuous line without breaking it, the cable linking America with Europe was put in place by September, 1866.

Statistics of the "Great Eastern"
207 metres long (680 feet) 
25 metres wide (83 feet) 
Weighed 22,352 tonnes 
Carried 4000 passengers in comfort or 10,000 troops squeezed together 
Had six masts called Monday to Saturday 
Had two paddle wheels 17 metres in diameter (56 feet) 
Had five large funnels 31 metres high (100 feet) and almost 2 metres wide (6 feet) 
Had six boilers which could produce 1600 horsepower = 120 times the power of a small car 
The propeller was made of cast iron and weighed 36.6 tonnes  
Could travel at 14 knots = about 18 miles per hour

See Great Eastern and Cursed Haunted Ship Great Eastern for more information on this ship

National Archives and Records Administration, Film #M237 Reel #202, List #538

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