15th. All parties not complying with these rules will be liable to have a part of their provisions deducted as a punishment, as the commander and officers may think fit.
Anthony Enright, Commander.
The Passengers on the “Lightning.”
Perhaps a few details regarding the number and kind of passengers, for which these rules were framed, may now be of interest.
In 1855 the Lightning took out 47 saloon, 53 second cabin, 20 intermediate and 253 steerage passengers, her crew numbering 87; total of souls on board—495.
In 1856 her purser gave the following details of the outward bound passengers:—
| Saloon—Adults 39: children 12:Total | 51 |
| ’Tween deck—Married adults male | 42 |
| „ „ female | 55 |
| Single „ male | 184 |
| „ „ female | 33 |
| children | 47 |
| infants | 7 |
| crew | 85 |
| Number of souls on board | 504 |
On the homeward passage the numbers were naturally very much less, and women were not so numerous.
In 1855 the Lightning brought home 51 saloon, 123 second cabin and 80 intermediate; total—254. On her second voyage that year, owing to the accident to her false bow when outward bound, she could only muster 80 passengers.