The OCEAN was a steamer of 300 tons, her principal dimensions being 154 by 22 by 15. She was built on the Mersey in 1836, and in 1838 made a record passage from Liverpool to Cork in 23 hours. She was intended for the general Coasting Service of the St. George Co., and had the honour of acting as tender to her more famous sister-ship the SIRIUS, on the occasion of the latter’s historic voyage to New York. Six years later when she had become the property of the Cork Steamship Co., she rendered valuable service to the Steampacket VANGUARD, belonging to the Dublin and Glasgow Steam Packet Co. During a gale on the 14th December, 1844, the VANGUARD, inward bound with a valuable cargo and a number of passengers, was forced on to the rocks about a quarter of a mile inside of Roche’s Point Lighthouse. This occurred about 4 a.m., and soon afterwards the OCEAN, inwards from Bristol to Cork, passed the spot. The VANGUARD’s signals of distress were noticed, and the Captain of the OCEAN (Caldbeck), in spite of the heavy sea that was running, at once launched his boats, and succeeded in rescuing the VANGUARD’s passengers. The steamer was afterwards towed off the rocks and taken to Passage for repairs. The OCEAN continued in the service of the Cork Steamship Co. until 1853, when she was purchased by the Chester and Holyhead Railway Co. The remaining steamer transferred from the St. George Co., was the famous SIRIUS. The SIRIUS was built in 1837 by Menzies & Co., Perth, and engined by J. Wingate & Co., Glasgow; and cost £27,000. Her length was 208 feet, her breadth 25 feet, and her depth 18 feet. She had two masts and one funnel, and a dog figure-head, holding between the fore-paws a star, representing the dog-star Sirius, after which the vessel was named. On the occasion of her memorable voyage to New York, she sailed from London on the 28th March, 1838, under the command of Lieut. Richard Roberts, R.N., and called at Cork Harbour to coal and to embark the mails and passengers. The OCEAN arrived from Liverpool on the 3rd April with mails and passengers to be transferred to the SIRIUS. Next morning at 10 o’clock the SIRIUS got under way, being accompanied as far as the entrance to the harbour by the OCEAN. There, a brief stoppage was made while the OCEAN went alongside the SIRIUS to bring off a number of ladies and gentlemen who had been permitted to accompany their friends thus far, the steamers exchanged salutes, and then the SIRIUS continued her course, being watched with keen interest until she disappeared beneath the horizon. She arrived at New York at 10 p.m. on the 22nd April, and thus brought to a successful termination the first voyage ever made by a passenger steamer from Europe to America. She made two Trans-Atlantic voyages, and afterwards returned to the Home and Continental Services. When she became the property of the Cork Steamship Co. she was employed in the Glasgow, Dublin and Cork Service, in which she continued until 1847. On the evening of