First West Indies Cruise
12 February 1949
Crew List Transcript
Introduction
This page lists all of the jobs carried out by the crew of the “Green Goddess” on her very first Cruise to the West Indies. Although this list is shown as a manifest, it is not intended that it give full details of each crew member, like Age, Nationality, Service at Sea etc.
- Crew Complement
- 12 February 1949
- Deck Dept
- 127
- Engineers Dept
- 100
- Catering Dept
- 450
- Total
- 679 (including Master)
Accuracy
Whilst every effort has been made to check this transcript, the process has highlighted a few errors in the original documents which have been corrected here. If any of the ratings are incorrectly described below, do please advise me of these.
Notes
- Total crew complement, including the Master, for the 12 February 1949 Voyage was 679 of which there were 450 in the Catering Department. The kitchen staff are no longer separately identified as in the Maiden Voyage Crew List
- On arrival at New York on 07 February 1949, 48 more crew were signed-on in preparation for this very first cruise
- At the end of this first Cruise in New York, 12 crew were signed-off, being replaced by 12 signing-on. These do not feature in this list!
Key to Symbols Used
- Prefix B = Signed-on at Southampton for Maiden voyage
- Prefix C = Signed-on at Southampton for 29 Jan 1949 voyage
- Prefix ¶C = Signed-on at New York 07-12 Feb 1949