The largest of three ships that carried Manx emigrants to Ohio in 1827. The Ocean carried roughly a hundred and twenty-nine passengers — its handwritten manifest suggests a ship that did not normally carry passengers, pressed into service for this particular human cargo. The party was headed by John Sayle, sixty-seven years old, a Wesleyan Local Preacher who had helped produce the 1799 Manx hymn translation. With him travelled Patrick Cannell, seventy-two, another Local Preacher.