JAPAN & SOUTH PACIFIC CRUISE 1954
Passenger List Transcript
Ship's Officers
- Master
- Charles S. Williams
- Staff Captain
- Geoffrey T. Marr, DSC, RD, RNR
- Chief Officer
- Phillips A. Read, DSC, RD, RNR
- Chief Engineer
- John W. Bain
- Staff Chief Engineer
- Andrew D. Robertson
- Surgeon
- Alexander S. Nicol, MB, Ch.B.
- Assistant Surgeon
- Arthur C.K. Yates, DSC, MB, Ch.M, FRCS
- Purser
- Fergus Pritchard
- Staff Purser
- Robert H. Owen
- Chief Steward
- Joseph W. Nicholls
Cruise Staff
- Cruise Director
- Mr. Thomas Hidderley
- Cruise Staff
- Mr. Edward Q. McVitty
Mr. Francis J. Whitworth
Mr. Rex Nichols
Mr. Garfield T. Zeller - Social Directresses
- Miss Lorna Yost
Miss Jane Lindgren - Lecturer
- Mr. Sheridan E. Garth
- Excursions Manager
- Mr. Eugene C. Kelly
- Excursions Staff
- Mr. R. Avery
Mr. John J. Betts
Mr. William H. Flueg
Mr. Eric C.A. Hanscomb
Mr. John Hughes
Mr. John Petty
Mr. Nathanael J. Toerber - Chaplain
- Rt. Rev. Harold E. Sawyer
- Dance Instructors
- Harry & Julia Joyce
List of Passengers
This page is a full-text transcript of the Passenger List for Caronia's Japan & South Pacific Cruise from in New York 23rd January 1954. The cruise finished in New York on 02 May 1954. The list has been constructed from an amalgamation of Cunard's published list issued to passengers and New York US Immigration records.
Important Notes
- Amalgamating this information has provided an opportunity to have more complete information
- In the Cunard list, wives travelling with their husbands don't have their actual forename(s) included, so these have been added
- Names inserted in brackets come from the immigration manifest sheets
- Apart from where noted, all the passengers listed below appeared in the published list
- Some embarkations and 1 (D/E) disembarkation are noted
- Passengers marked with § prefix are the unnamed Maids shown in the published list
- Passengers marked with a ¶ prefix do not appear in the US New York Immigration Lists, so they probably disembarked in Long Beach.
- It's probable that a separate Long Beach immigration manifest was prepared for those disembarkations
For cruises, Caronia's Passenger Lists were handbooks providing advice and answering a number of frequently asked questions. Instead of repeating this within every transcript, its content forms the start page of the 1951 Virtual Great World Cruise.
Accuracy
As no Long Beach US Immigration Records are to hand, the list below should not be regarded as being definitive. No guarantee of accuracy can be given with regard to marital status or indeed spelling of names. Any proven corrections will be welcomed.
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