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By Robert Heywood
The Britannia, 125 feet long. Number of persons on board: 27 engaged on the vessel, including the Captain, two mates, two cooks, two stewards and a carpenter, with nine passengers, making, with 152 steerage passengers, a total of 188.
The Captain, Wm. Sketchley, an experienced seaman having crossed the Atlantic 132 times—very attentive to the wants of the steerage.
List of passengers:
Mr. Bassnett from Preston, has been a good deal in Canada, also in the West Indies and Holy Land.
Mr. Hamilton, a clergyman of the Irish Epis., decrepit easy Christian.
Mr. Grindrod, a Methodist preacher going to Kingston as a president from England, possessing more activity and apparent piety.
Captain Kenney, an officer on half-pay, had seen a good deal of high life.
Mr. Cayley, a good-looking but rather coxcomical young man, he and his parents had resided at St. Petersburg.