Birth at sea on HMS Victor Emmanuel

[IanJBarrow]

On the 5th October 1874 Catherine Gillingham gave birth to a daughter. Her husband was Robert Gillingham a Colour Sergeant in the 1/10 Regiment. Other than the daughter’s birth and that the mother was aboard I cannot find any passenger list to check if other family members were on board. The family had 1 son (my gt grandfather) and 3 other daughters.
Can anyone suggest a resource I could search as all the online sources draw a blank.

[ShaunJ]

The Victor Emmanuel was a hospital ship. On 5th October 1874 she was en route from Portsmouth to Hong Kong to take up permanent station there.

She was carrying a detachment of 85 men of 1st Battalion 10th Regiment to join the HQ of the regiment at Singapore. She arrived at Singapore on 18 October and left for Hong Kong on 22nd.

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/stoverland18741022-1.2.27.13

[Andy J2022]

HM Ships were not required to file copies of their manifests with the Board of Trade so it is unlikely that any list of those on board has survived. Where the War Office chartered civilian ships for the movement of troops and their families you stand a better chance of finding a record of the manifest.