Plan their menu for a week on board the Great Eastern. Remember that it is 1865. You will need to think very carefully what foods could be kept on board the ship. The ship has no refrigerators so there will be no way to store fresh food. Tinned and dried food is available and bread can be baked on board.
Drinking water is limited.
Find out more about how food was preserved in Victorian times. Sir James Anderson Read these notes on Sir James Anderson. He was the captain of the Great Eastern on the 1865 and 1866 transatlantic cable-laying voyages. James Anderson was born in 1824 at Dumfries in Scotland. He became very interested in boats and the sea when he was a boy.