Windrush: 75 Years of Modern BritainThe oral history of Britains first West Indian immigrants and their descendants In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30 day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its 500 passengers, the first generation of Caribbean migrants in the UK, was the initial step in the formation of a new identity: the black Briton. Fifty years later, Mike and Trevor Phillips spoke to those on the Windrush itself, as well as those who followed,