Another from the Great Eastern and the laying of the transatlantic cable. This time departing Sheerness, 30 June 1866 with a work detail roughly half the size of previous mentions*:

“At 11 o'clock, a rush was made to the forepart of the ship to see the anchor weighed, a very pretty and spirit-stirring sight it was. The capstan was manned by some seventy or eighty men, and in midst of this human star, sitting on the top of the capstan itself, was the ship's fiddler, who, with fiddle in hand, was ready for action. The signal is given, the fiddler strikes up The Girl I left behind Me, round goes the capstan, and in the process of time the anchors are brought to the surface, fished, and catted. The order is given: 'Slow ahead with the paddles,' and in another minute we are fairly under-way.”
[The Atlantic Telegraphs, Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, no.150, 10 November 1866]

*Lyr Req/Add: Slap Bang, Here We Are Again