The Palestine left Plymouth on 29.11.1852 carrying 229 passengers and somewhere between 31 and 36 single Irish girls. Most and possibly all of these girls came from the Moulbellew Workhouse in Galway
- Palestine Passenger List
- Palestine Single Irish Girls Column 2 starting at Catherine Cunningham has the names of 36 girls
- Shipping Intelligence. (1853, May 6). The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News
- Palestine 1853