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Ocean Voyages

Storms, preservation, and providence on the Atlantic crossing. Every account below is a long-form, documented narrative from the archive.

74 accounts · drawn only from substantive narratives

Willard Richards's recovery from pain and illness via prayer and laying on of hands(1837)

Healing of a Child on the Ship Garrick(1837)

William C. Staines Sees Prophet Joseph Smith in Vision Before Meeting Him(1843)

Orson Hyde — Fed by an Angel, Prophecy of Rain, and Dedication of Jerusalem(1841)

Hiram Kimball and Lorenzo Wasson: The Last Messengers to Joseph Smith Before the Martyrdom(1844)

Ann Pitchforth's Foreknowledge That She Would Sail to Nauvoo(1840s)

Wilford Woodruff Preserved Through Forty-Three Days of Storms on the Atlantic(1846)

Noah Rogers and Benjamin Grouard Divinely Forced to Tooboui — the Captain's Avoided Island Becomes a Missionary Door (1844)

Orson Hyde — Vision of London, Amsterdam, Constantinople, and Jerusalem (March 1840)

John Taylor's Recovery from Life-Threatening Illness(1839)

Thomas L. Barnes: The Coroner of Carthage and a Witness of the Martyrdom (1844)

Fiddler Hans: The Danish Sailor Who Gave the First Company Its Evening Music (1847)

Manuel Sanchez's Divinely Timed Meeting with His Missionaries Before Navy Boot Camp(1980s)

Rigas Pofantis's Vision of a Stranger from Turkey(1890s)

Henry A. Dixon's Prophetic Assurance of Safety during the Arizona Collision(1879)

Healing of Saints on the Ship American Congress(1866)

Divine Deliverance of Passengers on the Burning S.S. Abyssinia(1891)

Healing of Karen Peterson's fractured arm at sea(1886)

Elder Snelgrove, Binder, Farrell, and Hogg's Preservation from Shipwreck on the SS Wyoming(1874)

Saints on the Caravan preserved during the storm(1856)

Divine preservation of the Saints on the ship S. Curling(1856)

Divine Protection of Emigrants on the Minnesota(1868)

John D. T. McAllister’s Deliverance from the Sinking Steamship United Kingdom(1861)

Elder Parley P. Pratt's Prophecy of Trans-Atlantic Travel(1850)

N. T. Porter's miraculous divine preservation and provision during his banishment from Gibraltar(1853)

Miraculous rescue of L. A. Bailey and company from the SS City of Chester storm(1885)

Healing of an Elder and his wife from cholera on a Mississippi River boat(1854)

Blessing of the infant Nevada Atlantic Larsen on the ship Nevada(1878)

The miraculous preservation of the company on the ship Wyoming(1873)

Abel Evans's healing of cancer and cholera(1840s)

George W. Mousley's survival of the Scotland train wreck(1865)

Elder Andrus, Elder Duncan, and Elder Penrose’s report of a child’s healing and the general spiritual manifestation on the ship Underwriter(1861)

R. A. McBride's deliverance from a storm in the Channel Islands(1862)

William Fotheringham and brethren's protection during a perilous sea voyage(1861)

Thomas Bullock's prophetic guidance during shipwreck(1843)

Brother Hanks' Dream of the Spirits in Prison While Dying at Sea — Seen on Addison Pratt's Atlantic Crossing (1844)

Anna F. Tarr’s Divine Sustenance and Protection on the Ship Thornton(1856)

John Williams and the Saints on the Columbia preserved during voyage(1856)

Establishment of the Unity Branch in Mauritius(1856)

Edward Stevenson and Saints on the Chimborazo receive blessings of fair wind and divine protection(1855)

Deliverance of Saints from Cholera on Missouri River Steamboats(1855)

C. R. Savage and the Saints on the J. J. Boyd preserved during Atlantic voyage(1856)

Edward Martin's Protection and Spiritual Encouragement on the Horizon(1856)

James Ferguson's Divine Protection and Guidance During Emigration(1856)

Elder E. Ludington's Baptism of James Trail and His Wife in Bankok(1854)

Saints on the Charles Buck Healed of Sickness Through Priesthood Ordinances(1855)

Saints on the Rockaway Experience Manifestations of the Spirit(1855)

William Willes's Divine Provision of Passage from India to Singapore(1854)

Scandinavian Saints' preservation at sea(1854)

Nathan Tanner and Elders Miraculously Guided and Sustained in Hawaii(1853)

Spiritual Manifestations During the Voyage of the Golconda(1854)

Malta Saints Receive Spiritual Manifestations(1853)

John Forssgreen Baptizes Emigrants and Converts Near Gefle, Sweden(1850)

Whitehead's Son Spared from the Governor Fenner Shipwreck by Joining the Saints' Company (1841)

Elder George J. Adams Foresees in a Night Vision That the Ship Must Return to Liverpool — a Seven-Day Tempest Fulfills It (1842)

William Clayton — Healed of a Raging Fever at Cutler's Park (1846)

Heber C. Kimball's Prophecy of the Dedication-Day Windstorm(1893)

Deliverance of the Ship Brooklyn(1846)

William James Barratt: The First Latter-day Saint Missionary to Australia (c. 1840s)(1844)

Charles Sansom: The Gloucestershire Teenager Who Crossed the Ocean for Zion and Left a Record of His Voyage(1845)

Mary Ann Weston Maughan: The Dressmaker's Apprentice Whose Landlords Led Her to the Gospel(1840)

The Biscuit Miracle — Ann Rowley's Two Sea Biscuits Feed Eight Starving Children(1856)

A Couple from Ghana Traveled by Freight Vessel to the London Temple — and the President Opened It Just for Them(1980s)

Ann Jewell Rowley Fed Her Ten Children from Two Hard Sea Rolls(1856)

Steward on Ship to Nauvoo Healed by Elder Lorenzo Snow's Administration(1843)

Elizabeth Brotherton Healed of Shipboard Sickness - Divine Healing on Journey(1841)

Safe Passage Through Storm at Sea Answered by Prayer Meetings(1844)

William Clayton - Child's Life Preserved Through Faith During Dangerous Voyage(1840)

William Clayton — Miraculous preservation during 1840 voyage from England to America

Orson Hyde Prophesies Rain During Drought and It Comes Before the Meeting Ends(1850s)

An Angel Appears to a Starving Orson Hyde and Feeds Him Celestial Fruit(1834)

Mary Isabella Hales' Family Miraculously Preserved During Raging Cholera Epidemic in Toronto(1832)

Patriarchal Blessing to Mary Isabella Hales Prophesies She Will Be Brought Through Six Troubles — Fulfilled(1838)

Eliza Dana Gibbs Instantly Healed of Fever by Apostle Orson Pratt in Nauvoo(1844)

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