Here is another story about a ship with a troubled passage. Before this story was published in The Globe, the ship had reached New York (April 3, 1851). The arrival manifest has been transcribed by ISTG. It lists 250 passengers (almost all Irish), of whom 23 are noted as dying on the voyage. Although Capt. Purdy brought the ship to Halifax, the manifest was signed by Fred Hyland, as master, so perhaps Capt. Purdy was replaced in Halifax. The note about 1100 tons O.M. means Old Measurement. After a change in the formula for measuring tonnage, ships were sometimes listed with two tonnages, Old Measurement and New Measurement. The Globe, Toronto, Canada West, April 8, 1851 THE SHIP INFANTA, at this port on Thursday last, 68 days from Liverpool, bound to New York, with upwards of 200 passengers. fourteen of whom died on the passage, is still in our harbour waiting for men. Thos. Bolton, Esq., is agent for the ship, and she has been supplied with every necessary for prosecuting the voyage, with the exception of completing her crew. Most of the seamen on board have been sick during almost the entire passage, and it has only been by the most strenuous exertions of Capt. Purdy, and the partial training of some ten or a dozen of the passengers to work the ship, that the Infanta was enabled to reach Halifax. Several deaths have occurred since her arrival, and it is thought many more will follow - the majority of the passengers having lost heart, and not seeming to care what becomes of them. Six men were shipped last week - their advance paid - but subsequently refused to proceed. On Sunday last, the anchor was lifted for the purpose of proceeding to the Quarantine Station, but for want of hands to work the ship, and her head casting the wrong way, she was obliged to anchor again. The Infanta is owned by a house in St. John, N.B., and is upward of 1100 tons O. M. Nova Scotian [Halifax] -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------