I have just come across one of my ancestors on a passenger list for SS Lusitania in 1909 in New York. He is grouped with a Swedish sea captain and they are going to Panama. Now John Durey was a marine engineer born and bred and with family in Southwick, so what is he doing in Panama? The Panama Canal was under constuction at this time and the list shows he had been through New York previously and indeed is absent from his family on 1901 census. Were engineers recruited from Sunderland shipyards to work on the Canal? Has anyone else come across family going there?