Immigrant Ships
Ship Descriptions from Various Internet Mailing Lists List
and from Direct Submissions E-mailed to the Owner of this Web Site
Last updated 25 September 2003
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In order to conserve space on the web server, and to speed dowload times, I will not post any pictures to this site. Illustrations of many of the ships can be found in several of the information sources cited in the various ship descriptions, and at some of the web sites cited below.
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If you don't find your ship here, you may also wish to try The Palmer List of Merchant Vessels, compiled by Michael Palmer.
OR
The MarinersWeb site, compiled by Debbie Beavis and Ted Finch.
OR
The Ships List Web site. - established to assist those seeking information on the vessels which brought their ancestors to their new home, be that the United States, Canada, Australia, or another part of the world. Some ships passenger lists, schedules, wreck data, and other information which is not readily available, has been collected, along with links to other sites of interest.
Bibliography
Ship or Barque??
A technical point: to a sailor, a ship and a bark are quite different vessels, and are distinguished by their rigging: in the mid-19th century a ship was a vessel with (at least) 3 masts, all of them square-rigged; a bark (or barque) was a vessel also with 3 masts, the "front" two (the foremast and mainmast) square rigged, the back mast (mizzenmist) rigged fore-and-aft. For a pictorial representation of these different rigs, see the webpage
What is a Snow?
A snow rig was similar to a brig - two masts with square sails on each. It was distinguished from a brig by having an extra small mast fitted abaft the main lower mast. This was known as the trysail mast and was set with a spanker sail (fore-and-aft triangular sail). The snow rig was at one time common around the coasts of the UK but it is believed that the last one, the "Commerce" of Newhaven was built in 1862 and existed until 1909. [Courtesy of Ted Finch]
Immigrant Ship-Related Links
A site with Cunard Line ship descriptions is the Cunard's Historical Fleet search site.
MAITLAND - Journey toAustralia, 1838 by Bruce Fairhall.
Ships of the Holland-America Line can be found at the Unofficial Holland-America Line Page.
Messageries Maritimes (French Shipping Co.) Can be found at Messageries Maritimes page.
Descriptions and pictures of several ships from Scandnavia can be found at the Scandinavian Emigrant Ships website.
Riverboats,Steamboats, Sternwheelers and Sidewheelers lists and describes many of these vessels.
Links to many "Immigrant Ships" and "Passenger List" sites are located at
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet -Ships, Passenger Lists &Immigration
A series of pictures of some of the more famous ocean liners can be found at the
Ocean Liners of the Past Index
(the actual web page no longer exists).
New York's"Immigration Station",
my series of pages dealing with Castle Garden, the Barge Office and Ellis Island.
Angel Island -California's "Immigration Station"
is my series of pages about immigration into California by Asians. Reproduced from a book published in 1917.
Grosse Ile was Canada's "Immigration Station," and is now a Canadian National Park.
The following text-format web pages, compiled by the Genealogical Computer Group of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists, were last updated on 30th July 1988.
They contain an alphabetic list of ships that served Australia and New Zealand, with brief descriptions (162 typewritten pages):
Introduction -PLEASEREAD
A'ONUI to CAROLINE
CAROLINE to EMMA
EMMA ELIZA to HENRY
HENRY to KYARRA
L'ALCMENE to MURITAI
MURITAI to RARAWA
RAREWA to THANE
THE ADVENTURE to ZINGARRA.
The Australian National Historic Shipwreck Database can be found here.
Descriptions of United States Naval Ships can be found at the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Online.
Descriptions of Canadian Naval Ships are posted at the Canadian Navy of Yesterday and Today website.
DISCLAIMER: The compiler of this website and the various contributors believe that the information contained herein is reasonably accurate, as it it taken from various published sources deemed to be reliable. However, neither the compiler, nor the owners of the various mailing lists to which most of the information was originally posted, nor the contributors assume any liability for the accuracy of the information, which is offered "as is" to the Internet community in a cooperative spirit.
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