At 09:11 AM 2006-04-29 -0700, Steve wrote: >Reference - SS. Tropli - sailing Liverpool - Queenstown - New York April >3, 1866. > >Does anyone know if there was ever a departure manifest generated in >Ireland when ships left port? <snip> Hi Steve, First, your ship name is the Cunard Line ship TRIPOLI, built 1863 http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsT-U.html There probably was a manifest created in Ireland, however none of those survive. see British Passenger List Records http://www.theshipslist.com/Research/ukrecords.html I indicate that there 'probably' were lists, because even way earlier than that, if a ship went missing, all the newspapers could easily report the names from the "passenger list." I suspect they remained in the custody of the shipping line or its Agent(s), then after the ship had safely arrived and an undetermined period of time, the list would be destroyed. For British records, those outbound lists were not archived by the Government before 1890 . . . for other countries, those outbound records were never archived. Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/