Catalogue description 26 March 1866, all shrimp diarrhoea men well. 27 March 1866, sent to HMS Vindictive for...

26 March 1866, all shrimp diarrhoea men well. 27 March 1866, sent to HMS Vindictive for passage to Ascension Island Hospital; Kelly Private Marine; Mann, Gunner, Royal Marine Artillery; Walton, Boy 1st Class; Buckland, Savary, Mason, [Humby], Read, Driscoll, Phillips, McEtheran, Cawse, McCarthy, of the Pioneer, and Krooman Jim Free.

Folio 31: Meteorological table and 'General Remarks' for the month of April 1866. Daily entries record the whereabouts of the ship, main events and names entered on sick list. 10 April 1866, George Soul, Ordinary Seaman, fell from main top, died. 21 April 1866, 81 attending at bay, 63 on sick list. 24 April 1866, seven cases of diarrhoea from eating bad dried fish bought on shore.

Folio 32: Meteorological table and 'General Remarks' for the month of May 1866. Daily entries record the whereabouts of the ship, main events and names entered on sick list. 4 May 1866, 81 receiving advice. 21 May 1866, invalided Overy, Ralph, Owen, Clements, Hearnden, Barrett, Pepper, Long Tom, Shields, Holland, Buckley and [Commander] Nelson. Discharged, Tom Nimrod. 24 May 1866, 48 men and petty officers ashore, in a street row 14 men injured. 12 moon blind.

Folio 33: Meteorological table and 'General Remarks' for the month of June 1866. Daily entries record the whereabouts of the ship, main events and names entered on sick list. 16 June 1866, Burton ill of typhoid fever, has never been on shore since leaving England, bad water from shore suspected as source. 19 June 1866, more bad water received, William Burton, aged 24, Able Seaman, sent to hospital and put in separate ward. 23 June 1866, Commodore hurt in cricket field.

Folio 33A: Inserted 'List of men who contracted venereal disease during the Ship's stay at St Helena, 6 June to 28 June 1866'. Lists names, ages and quality of 35 men.

Folio 34: Meteorological table and 'General Remarks' for the month of July 1866. Daily entries record the whereabouts of the ship, main events and names entered on sick list. 1 July 1866, 24 cases of venereal disease, 71 sick. 4 July 1866, Weaver, Coles, Mahoney, Hope, Collins, McKenzie, Cresswell, Flint, Kelly, [...], Macey, Mannering, Harris, Lucas, Bacon, Ford and Holroyd, all sent to hospital at Ascension Island. 6 July 1866, Gorringe, Shaw, [Love] and Heather, sent to hospital at Ascension Island.

Folio 35: Meteorological table and 'General Remarks' for the month of August 1866. Daily entries record the whereabouts of the ship, main events and names entered on sick list. 25 August 1866, sent to hospital; Charles Bacon, aged 16, Boy 1st Class, fractured leg; William Lumb, aged 17, Boy 1st Class, abscess; New William, Krooman, syphilis. Returned from hospital as invalids for passage home; Barnard and Tucker, varicose ulcers.

Folio 36: Meteorological table and 'General Remarks' for the month of September 1866. Daily entries record the whereabouts of the ship, main events and names entered on sick list. 8 September 1866, George Smith, Boy 1st Class, moon blind. 10 September 1866, Lambert, Ordinary Seaman, scalp wound from being knocked down by preventer brace hook. 12 September 1866, Mahoney and Johnson attacked with febris intermittens, also the surgeon.

Folio 37: Meteorological table and 'General Remarks' for the month of October 1866. Daily entries record the whereabouts of the ship, main events and names entered on sick list. 3 October 1866, out of 315 days away from Portsmouth the men have been on salt rations for 248 days and 86 in the last quarter, their health is very much deteriorated. 12 October 1866, took 27 invalids to Victory and Jones to Haslar Hospital. 14 October 1866, Martin Galvin, Quarter Master, very ill with morbus cordis and phthisis. Died, 15 October 1866. 17 October 1866, sent to hospital; John Gunn, Ordinary Seaman, rheumatism; George Kibble, Gunner Royal Marine Artillery, bronchitis; George Palmer, Sailmaker's Crew, chronic rheumatism. 20 October 1866, sent to Royal Naval Hospital, Mr William Thomas Wills, Boatswain, aneurism. 24 October 1866, sent to Royal Naval Hospital, Alex Irving, Captain Head, typhoid fever. 25 October 1866, Alex Irving died in hospital. 28 October 1866, many men ill with colds, small ulcers breaking out and three cases of scurvy.

Folio 38: Meteorological table and 'General Remarks' for the month of November 1866. Daily entries record the whereabouts of the ship, main events and names entered on sick list. With figures for numbers of men victualled quarterly. 1 November 1866, sent to hospital; George [Prenkherd], Gun Room Cook, bronchial catarrh; Edward Nowland, Private Marine, syphilis; Charles Wills, aged 21, Private Marine, phthisis; Henry Overy, aged 24, Able Seaman, secondary syphilis; Andrew Curry, aged 25, Private Marine, ulcer; John H Stubbs, aged 22, Ordinary Seaman, syphilis; James Hopkins, aged 26, Stoker, gonorrhoea, bubo; James Sheriff, aged 19, Ordinary Seaman, ulcer; William Morris, aged 17, Boy 1st Class, ulcer. 5 November 1866, sent to hospital; John Whitney, aged 25, Private Marine, gonorrhoeal rheumatism; Richard White, Able Seaman, pleurisy. 10 November 1866, sent to hospital; John Brett, aged 27, Able Seaman, bronchitis; John Gardner, aged 35, Private Marine, bronchitis and incipient delirium tremens. 15 November 1866, sent to hospital; Richard Andrews, aged 16, Boy 1st Class, peritonitis, he returned to duty 1 December but was found to be phthisical; Robert Robinson, aged 25, Ship's Cook, phlegmon. 22 November 1866, sent to hospital; William Tolladay, aged 26, 2nd Captain of the Fore Top, pneumonia.

Folio 38A: Inserted paper 'HMS Bristol Food of the men', showing when fresh meat was issued, the quarterly total pounds of vegetables issued, the quarterly numbers victualled on fresh meat, quarterly savings paid for and quarterly pounds of fresh meat used.

Folio 39: Meteorological table and 'General Remarks' for the month of December 1866. Daily entries record the whereabouts of the ship, main events and names entered on sick list. With table of average number on sick list for each month from December 1865 to December 1866.