Simplify the following text for a Grade 6 native English-speaking person.
Original: The captain of the Manilus , known in the Victorian Shipping records as the `` Plague ship '' , would not receive his bounty as forty-five of the ship 's 243 passengers had been lost to yellow fever during the journey from Scotland 's shores .
Simplified: Forty-five of the ship 's 243 passengers had died from yellow fever during the journey from Scotland 's shores .