Hello All, I am wondering if anyone can help with my query? On Friday 13th May 1842, my relatives boarded a ship in the Princes Dock Liverpool bound for New York. They reached Black Rock on the following (or same day - there is a query about the date), Saturday 13th May and by Sunday were being towed out into the Irish Channel by a steamer. I have tried to find out the name of this ship and its Captain from the Liverpool Mercury but the only ship leaving for New York was the 'Ascala' or 'Osceola' (I have seen both spellings) Captained by Barstow which departed on Friday 13th May 1842 not on the Saturday which is the date my ancestor said the captain had planned to leave. It is possible that he left on the Friday due to tidal conditions etc Perhaps someone knows if the ship did leave on the Friday or what other ship might have transported my ancestors to New York? Secondly, when they arrived, my ancestors described the following: 'Tuesday June 14th a pilot came aboard at 10pm and we anchored in quarantine 4pm Weds June 15th (Where would this have been?) We are busy preparing for landing in the harbour which is the most beautiful one in the world. We left the vessel in a small sloop at 4pm Thursday 16th which took us to the Custom Wharf which we left at 7pm. The breeze died away and we were compelled to go back with the tide to the wharf again and stayed there until 11pm when we started again and arrived at New York at 2 am which I call 'The Slough of Despond'. Where was the 'beautiful harbour'? Where was quarantine normally undertaken? Where would the Customs Wharf have been and would they have sailed into New York on the same ship they had crossed the Atlantic in? I hope someone might be able to help with the above questions. Many thanks Christine Buckland