DALRIADA
The DALRIADA was a 3-masted, square-rigged ship, built at Quebec, by George H. Parke, in 1849. 1383/1504 (or 1507) tons (old/new measurement). 184 x 34 x 24.7 feet (length x beam x depth of hold). She was re-registered at Belfast on 1 October 1849 [Frederick William Wallace, Record of Canadian shipping; a list of squarerigged vessels, mainly 500 tons and over, built in the Eastern Provinces of British North America from the year 1786 to 1920 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1929), quoted in Maritime Museum of the Great Lakes at Canadian Ship Information Database. The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1850/51-1861/62 contain the following information on the DALRIADA: Master: 1850/51 - Kell[e]y; 1851/52 - T. Smith; 1851/52-1856/57 - J. Scott; 1857/58-1861/62 - Ewing. Owner: Granger. Port of Registry: 1850/51-1855/56 - Belfast; 1856/57 - Liverpool; 1857/58-1858/59 - Belfast; 1859/60-1861/62 - [none given]. Port of Survey: 1850/51-1855/56 - Liverpool [1851/52 also has "London" crossed out]; 1856/57 - London; 1857/58-1858/59 - Liverpool; 1859/60-1861/62 - [not given]. Destined Voyage: 1850/51 - New Orleans; 1851/52 - Callao; Quebec [crossed out]; 1851/52-1853/54 - Bombay; 1854/55-1855/56 - Valparaiso; 1856/57 - Akyab; 1857/58-1858/59 - Aden; 1859/60-1861/62 - [not given]. The DALRIADA is last mentioned in .Lloyd's Register for 1861/62; however, she was last surveyed in 1856, and as Lloyd's Register often kept vessels on the register for several years after they were lost, condemned, or sold foreign (that is, until they were officially notified of such an occurrence), it is possible that the DALRIADA was lost, condemned, or sold foreign several years before 1861. If you wish to determine precisely the DALRIADA's fate, your most efficient method to do so is to check the microfilmed annual indexes to Lloyd's List (which record vessel movements and casualties) beginning in 1857. Copies of these microfilms are held by the Memorial University of Newfoundland , the last of which provides a research service for $35 Canadian per hour, minimum one hour. - [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 28 September 1998]

DANBY
The "Danby" was a 4,281 ton ship, built in 1937 By Wm.Gray & Co for Ropner's of Hartlepool. This was one of the biggest and best known tramp ship owners in the UK and the "Danby" was still sailing in 1954. - [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 24 April 1998]

DANIA
The "Dania" was built for Hamburg America Line in 1889 by A.G.Vulcan, Stettin. She was a 4,076 gross ton ship, length 370.7ft x beam 44.3ft, one funnel, two masts, single screw and a speed of 14 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 30-1st and 1,400-3rd class. Launched on 12th October 1889, she sailed from Hamburg on her maiden voyage to Havre and New York on 16th December 1889. She continued on this service until commencing her last Hamburg - New York voyage on 20th October 1895. Acquired by Compagnia Trasatlantica of Spain for trooping duties in the Cuban rebellion in 1895 and renamed "Montserrat", she was returned to Hamburg America Lines and her previous name in 1896. In 1897 she was purchased by Cia Trasatlantica and again renamed "Montserrat", and was refitted to accommodate 121-1st, 36-2nd and 1,000-3rd class passengers. Her first commercial voyage started on 26th June 1900 when she left Barcelona for Malaga, Cadiz, New York and Havana. Her last voyage commenced 27th June 1924 from Vera Cruz to Havana, New York, Cadiz and Barcelona. In 1926 she was sold and scrapped the following year at Genoa. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1, p.396] - [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 8 August 1998]

The steamship DANIA (I) was build by AG "Vulcan", Stettin (Ship #189), for the HAPAG (the Hamburg-America Line), and launched on 12 October 1889. 4,076 tons; 112,98 x 13,50 meters (length x breadth); straight bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; steel construction, screw propulsion, triple-expansion engines, service speed 14 knots; accommodation for 30 passengers in 1st class and 1,400 in steerage; crew of 78. 16 December 1889, maiden voyage, Hamburg-Havre-New York. 20 October 1895, last voyage, Hamburg-New York. 1895, MONTSERRAT (Cia Trasatlantica, Barcelona). 1896, returned to HAPAG under her original name. 1897, returned to Cia Trasatlantica under the name MONTSERRAT; accommodation for 121 passengers in 1st class, 36 in 2nd class, and 1,000 in steerage. 26 June 1900, first voyage, Barcelona-Malaga-Cadiz-New York-Havana. 30 November 1920, sunk in New York harbor after colliding with the American steamship SAN MARCOS; later raised and repaired. 27 June 1924, last voyage, Vera Cruz-Havana-New York-Cadiz-Barcelona. 1926 sold for scrapping; 1927, scrapped at Genoa [Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika-Linie, Bd. 1: 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979), pp. 48-49 (photograph); Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 1 (1975), p. 396].- [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 8 August 1998]

DANIEL WEBSTER
The DANIEL WEBSTER was a wooden side-wheel steamer, built by William H.Brown, New York, for Cornelius Vanderbilt, and launched on 20 September 1851. 2 decks, 3 masts, round tuck, scroll head; 1,035 40/95 tons; 223' 4" x 31' x 18' 6" (length x beam x depth of hold); engine built by Allaire Iron Works; diameter of cylinder 4' 8", length of stroke 10'; 2 boilers 24' x 9', 34 lbs pressure; built with 31 staterooms and accommodations for 116 passengers. Operated from New York and New Orleans to San Juan and later to Aspinwall for Vanderbilt and Charles Morgan from 1851 to 1859. Chartered to the Quartermaster's Department, War Department, in 1861, 1862-1863, and 1863-1865 at $25,000 per job, and $400 to $900 per day. Went down 3 October 1866, en route to Mobile. Passengers taken off by the steamer GEORGE CROMWELL [John Haskell Kemble, The Panama Route, 1848-1869, University of California Publications in History, 29 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943), p. 223]. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 24 November 1997]

DANISH PRINCE (of 1894)
See PRINCE LINE FREIGHTERS

DANMARK
See JAN BREYDEL.

DANTE ALIGHIERI
The "Dante Alighieri" was built by Societa Esercizio Baccini, Riva Trigoso in 1914 for Transatlanta Italiana. She was a 9754 gross ton vessel, length overall 503.7ft x beam 59.5ft, two funnels, two masts,twin screw and a speed of 16 knots. There was accommodation for 100-1st, 260-2nd and 1,825-3rd class passengers. Launched on 28/11/1914 she left Genoa on her maiden voyage for Palermo, Naples and New York on 10/2/1915 and commenced her last voyage on this service in October 1927. Arrived NY on 5/11/1927 and left for Lisbon, Naples and Genoa on 15/11/1927. In 1928 she was sold to a Japanese company and was renamed "Asahi Maru". Her funnels reduced to one in 1940 and on 5/2/1944 she was damaged in collision off Bisan Seto in the Japanese Inland Sea. In 1949 she was scrapped. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Ted Finch]

DANUBE
See CHARLES DICKENS.

DARMSTADT
The "Darmstadt" was built by Fairfield & Co, Glasgow in 1890, for Norddeutscher Lloyd [North German Lloyd]. She was a 5012 gross ton vessel, length 415ft x beam 48ft, one funnel, two masts, steel construction, single screw and a speed of 13 knots. There was accommodation for 49-1st, 38-2nd and 1,904-3rd class passengers. Launched on 27/9/1890, she sailed from Bremen on her maiden voyage to Montevideo and Buenos Aires on 10/3/1891 and commenced her first voyage from Bremen to New York on 8/3/1892. On 11/10/1892 she left Bremen on her first voyage to the Far East via the Suez Canal and on 10/4/1895 commenced sailing Bremen - Suez - Australia. On 27/4/1905 she commenced her last voyage to the Far East after making 6 round voyages on this service and on 4/11/1905 resumed the Bremen - South America service. On 21/3/1906 she left Bremen on her last run to Australia after 16 round voyages, on 24/5/1907 started her last run Bremen - Baltimore, and on 28/2/1910 started her last voyage Bremen - New York after making a total of 27 round voyages on the North Atlantic service. She left Bremen for S.America on her last trip on 12/11/1910 and in 1911 was sold to a Turkish company and renamed "Kara Deniz". In 1914, on the outbreak of the Great War, she was seized at Bombay and laid up. In 1923 she was scrapped. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.2, p556] [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 7 October 1997]

DE GRASSE
The "De Grasse" of 1947 had a long and varied career. She was laid down in 1920 by Cammel Laird of Birkenhead as the "Suffren" for Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (CGT) but building was suspended until 1923 and she was finally launched as the "De Grasse" for CGT on 23/2/1924. She was a 17,707 gross ton liner, length overall 574ft x beam 71.4ft, two funnels, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 16 knots. Accommodation for 399-cabin class and 1,712-3rd class passengers. She sailed from Havre on her maiden voyage to New York on 21/8/1924 and in 1927 was converted to carry 536-cabin, tourist and 410-3rd class passengers. On 18/8/1939 she left Havre on her last peacetime voyage and was seized by the Germans in 1940 and became an accommodation ship near Bordeaux. Returned to CGT in 1942, she was used as a training ship and on 30/8/1945 she was depth charged by a German E-Boat and sank in shallow water. In 1945 she was raised and rebuilt as a 19,918 gross ton ship with one funnel and accommodation for 360-1st class and 360 cabin class passengers and on 12/7/1947 resumed the Havre - New York service. She left Havre on 30/9/1951 on her last trip on this run and was transferred to the Havre - West Indies service. In 1953 she was sold to Canadian Pacific and renamed "Empress of Australia", rebuilt to 19379 tons and accommodation for 220-1st and 444-tourist class passengers and put onto the Liverpool - Quebec - Montreal run. She made 38 round voyages and was then laid up in 1955 at Gareloch until sold to Grimaldi in 1956, renamed "Venezuela" and further rebuilt to 18567 tons, 180-1st class, 500-tourist class and 800-dormitory class passengers. She was used on several routes from Naples to Mediterranean, West Indian and American ports and in 1960 was fitted with a new clipper stem which increased her length to 614.2ft. On 16/3/1962 she beached after striking rocks off Cannes, was refloated and towed to Genoa and in 1962, was scrapped at Spezia. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Ted Finch]

DE KALB
See MOUNT CLAY.

DELAWARE
See CITY OF NEW YORK (2) .

DELFTDYKE
The "Delftdyke" was a 10,220 gross ton ship, built by Wilton, Schiedam in 1929 for Holland America Line's Rotterdam - Vancouver cargo-passenger service. Her dimensions were length 509ft x beam 65ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 14.5 knots. There was accommodation for 30 cabin class passengers. On 10th May 1940 she was bombed off Flushing, and again at Peterhead in Sept.1941 which put her out of service for a year. In Jan.1950 she was damaged by a mine at the mouth of the Weser, was rebuilt with new engines, funnel, bridge and bows, and renamed "Dongedyk". She resumed service to Vancouver in 1952 and in June 1966 was sold to Toshin Trading Co, Kobe, renamed "Tung Long" for a voyage to Kaohsiung, where she was broken up. Her sister ships were "Damsterdyk" and "Dalerdyk" [Holland America Line, a 120th Anniversary Celebration in Postcards by Peter C.Kohler, published by Ship Pictorial Publications, The Cabinet, High Street, Coltishall, Norfolk ] [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 22 December 1997]

DELHI
See NEMESIS.

DENISE
See SCOTIA .

DE RUYTER
The "De Ruyter" was built by A.Stephen & Sons, Glasgow in 1873 as the "Tromp" for T.C.Engels & Co, Flushing. She was a 2,280 gross ton ship, length 320ft x beam 36.1ft, straight stem, one funnel, three masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 10 knots. Launched on 15th May 1873, she sailed from Nieuwediep, Holland in June 1873 for Batavia and stranded in the Gulf of Suez on 1st July. Refloated on 10th August, she was temporarily repaired at Suez and then proceeded to La Seyne (Toulon) where she was reconditioned. She sailed to New York in ballast in June 1874 and then to London and Antwerp. The company withdrew from the Far Eastern trade and the ship was renamed "De Ruyter" in 1875 and transferred from Dutch to Belgian registry. She commenced her first Antwerp - New York sailing on 6th Aug 1876, her second on 20th May 1877 and her third on 1st April 1878. Between these voyages she was used on the South American service. On 26th June 1879 she commenced joint sailings with the White Cross Line between Antwerp and New York and her last passenger sailing on this route started on 22nd July 1884. Subsequently she maintained a cargo service between Antwerp, Boston and New York. She sailed from Antwerp on her last Boston - New York voyage on 12th March 1894 but went missing with the loss of 37 lives. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.3, p.996] - [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 19 August 1998]

DES MOINES
The DES MOINES was a side-wheel packet, built in Madison, Indiana, in 1857. 298 tons; wood hull. 1857-1861, in the Keokuk Packet Co, J.D. Malin, master; part owner, Capt. John G. Prather. Appropriated by the War Department for transport service during the Civil War, and in 1864 was up the Red River. 22 November 1864, struck and sank the steamer KATIE at Diamond Island, Ohio River. Off the lists in 1865; her machinery went to the steamer CORNELIA [Frederick Way, Jr., Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1994; Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America (revised edition; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1994)p. 125, packet #1512]. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 16 December 1997]

DEUCALION
The vessel in question is the ship Deucalion (after the son of Prometheus), which arrived at New Orleans on Sunday, 7 December 1845, Allen, master, 40 days from Le Havre; she cleared on 16 January 1846 for Boston [New Orleans Daily Picayune, 9 December 1845 and 18 January 1846]. There is only one vessel of this name in the 1830's/1840's, and she is indeed identical to the ship of built in 1836 by Magoun for his firm of Boston ship owners and operators, T. Magoon & Son [William Armstrong Fairburn, Merchant Sail (Center Lovell, ME; Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, [1945-55]), V.2900]. Her tonnage is given variously as 509 or 513. The following additional references are taken from Carl C. Cutler, Queens of the Western Ocean; The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, c1961):

1837 - Ship Deucalion, 513 tons, A. Winsor, master, in the Regular Line of Boston-New Orleans packets [p. 445]
1840 - Ship Deucalion, 513 tons, Howes, master, in Dispatch Line of Boston-New Orleans packets [p. 451]
1841 - Ship Deucalion, 513 tons, Howes, master, in Allen's Packet Line, Boston-Mobile [p. 440]
1847 - Ship Deucalion, 513 tons, Baker, master, in Dispatch Line of Boston-New Orleans packets. [p. 452]
1849 - Oliver G. Lane, master [pp. 440, 445, and 452]

Although the Daily Picayune does not state indicate at what port she was registered, I suspect that the Deucalion was registered at Boston. Vessel registration and enrollment certificates, which date from the 1780's, contain such information as the name of the vessel, its year and place of construction, its tonnage, and its present owner. Changes of ownership, as well as major "rebuilds" of vessels required a change of registration, and it is often possible to chart a vessel's history through its various registration certificates. I therefore recommend that you contact the National Archives in Washington, DC, and ask the staff to check RG [Record Group] 41, Registration and Enrollment Certificates for the Port of Boston, for registration certificates for the Deucalion. Finally, the records for the port of Le Havre for the 1840's, including passenger lists, were not destroyed. However, they cover only vessels of French registry, and the Deucalion, like the overwhelming majority of other vessels sailing between the United States and Le Havre, was of American registry. .[Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 17 June 1997]

DEUTSCHLAND (1)
A three masted ship rigged sailing vessel built in 1858 belonging to the Hamburg America Line. She was sold in 1867. Sailed between Hamburg and East Coast ports of America..[Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Ted Finch - 12 July 1997]

DEUTSCHLAND (2)
Sailed from Bremen and belonged to Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd). It was a 2800 ton iron steamer built by Caird & Co. at Glasgow in 1866. She had a clipper stem, one funnel and two masts, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. There was accommodation for 60 1st, 120 2nd, 700 3rd class passengers. She left Bremen for Southampton and New York on 14.10.1866 on her maiden voyage. She stayed on this service until 1875 when she was wrecked off Kentish Knock, in the Thames Estuary with the loss of 157 lives. ..[Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Ted Finch - 12 July 1997]

DEUTSCHLAND (3)
The "Deutschland" of 1900 was the third vessel of that name belonging to Hamburg America Line. She was built A.G.Vulkan of Stettin and launched on 10.1.1900. and was a 16,502 ton vessel, length 660.9ft x beam 67.3ft, four funnels (set in pairs), two masts, twin screw and a speed of 22 knots. She could carry 450-1st, 300-2nd and 350-3rd class passengers. She left Hamburg for Plymouth and New York on her maiden voyage on 4.7.1900 and took the blue riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic in both directions, although she suffered from excessive vibration at high speeds. In 1902, this caused her rudder and stern post to snap off and repairs took five months. She made her last voyage on this run on 24.9.1910. In 1911 she was rebuilt as a 17 knot cruise vessel with accommodation for 487-1st class passengers and renamed "Victoria Luise". She sailed between Hamburg - Southampton - Cherbourg - NY until the outbreak of war in 1914 when she intended to be converted to an auxiliary cruiser at Hamburg. She was not converted or surrendered to the Allies in 1919 due to her generally poor condition and in 1920 was damaged by fire during her reconditioning. She was rebuilt with two funnels and accommodation for 36 cabin class and 1,350-3rd class passengers and renamed "Hansa". Sailed between Hamburg and NY with a further rebuild in 1922 to carry 224 cabin and 1,065-3rd class passengers. Last voyage 25.9.1924 and scrapped in 1925 at Hamburg. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Ted Finch- 10 August 1997]

DEUTSCHLAND (4)
The DEUTSCHLAND was built for HAPAG (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt Aktiengesellschaft = the Hamburg America Line) by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (ship #405), and launched on 28 April 1923. 20,607 tons; 184,8 x 22.2 meters (length x breadth); 2 funnels, 4 masts, clipper stern; twin-screw propulsion (single-reduction steam turbines), service speed 16 knots; passenger accommodation: 221 in 1st class, 402 in 2nd class, 935 in 3rd class; crew of 420. The DEUTSCHLAND was the fourth vessel of this name owned by HAPAG. 27 March 1924, maiden voyage, Hamburg-Southampton-New York. 1 March 1928, passenger accommodation changed to 1st, 2nd, tourist, and 3rd class. 12 December 1929, last voyage, Hamburg - Boulogne - Southampton - New York. 1930, re-engined; 20,742 tons; service speed 20 knots. 30 May 1930, resumed Hamburg-Southampton-New York service (passenger accommodation: 1st, 2nd, and tourist class). 9 November 1933, last voyage, Hamburg-Southampton-New York. 1934, lengthened to 206,3 meters; 21,046 tons; service speed 22 knots; passenger accommodation: 200 in 1st class, 360 in tourist class, 400 in 3rd class. 8 February 1934, resumed Hamburg-Southampton- Cherbourg-New York service. February 1936, passenger accommodation designated cabin, tourist, and 3rd class. 3 August 1939, last voyage, Hamburg-Southampton-Cherbourg-New York (arrived 11 August, departed 17 August)-Hamburg. 1940, accommodation ship for the German navy at Gotenhafen. 1945, on 7 passages, carried 70,000 refugees from Eastern Germany to the West. 3 May 1945, sunk in the Lubecker Bucht off Neutadt by the same British air attack that sank the CAP ARCONA. 1948, wreck raised and scrapped. Sources: Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg- Amerika-Linie , Bd. 2: 1907-1926 (Herford: Koehler, 1980), p. 118 (photograph); Arnold Kludas, Die grossen Passagierschiffe der Welt; Eine DokumentationBd. 2 (2nd ed.; Oldenburg/Hamburg: Gerhard Stalling, c1973), pp. 220-221 (photographs); Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 1 (1975), p. 417. Also pictured in Clas Broder Hansen, Passenger liners from Germany, 1816-1990, translated from the German by Edward Force (West Chester, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Pub., c1991), p. 118. - [E-mail from Michael Palmer 13 April 1998]

DEUTSCHLAND (5)
The Ship: "Deutschland" - Feb29 - May31:Built at Deutsche Werke Kiel. 1 Apr 33: Completed as "Deutschland" ; renamed 5. Nov 39 and classified as CA 1939: Raider in the North Atlantic . Apr 40: Member of Operation "Weseruebung". At Doebrack narrowness she got the 2800 mm shells for Norwegian coastal batteries, which took her out of action. On the way back she was hit by torpedoes of HMS Spearfish and lost rudder and screws. Towed by sub chaser and mine searcher to Kiel. 13 Apr 40: At Kiel for repairs. 12 Jun 41:Sent to Trondheim-Fjord (Norway). Near by Lindnesnes the got a torpedo hit by RAF Bristol Beaufighter torpedo bombers. With damaged engines back to Kiel (14. Jun) where she stayed until Jan 42.. 2 Feb 43: Luetzow became training ship. Stayed at Norway until 25.September 1 Oct 43: Back at Gotenhafen. Overhauls at Libau until Feb 44. Usedas training ship at Baltic Sea. Oct 44: Artillery support to German ground forces at Sworbe and Memel. Feb 45: Artillery support to German ground forces at Frauenburg. Mar/Apr 45: Covered evacuations at Danzig/Gotenhafen. 8 Apr 45: Withdrawal to Swinemuende due to lack of fuel and ammunition. 14 Apr 45: Sunk at Swinemuende after near hits by 6 ts bombs at shallow water, artillery kept ok. 28 Apr 45:Bombarded Soviet forces with 280 mm guns and blasted by crew. Scrapped by Soviet 1947 at Leningrad (uncertain information). - [Posted to the ShipsList by Robert "Woody" Wood - 20 March 1998]

DEVONIA
The "Devonia" was a 4,270 gross ton ship, built by Barrow Shipbuilding Co, Barrow in 1877 for the Anchor Line. Her details were - length 400.3ft x beam 42ft, straight stem, one funnel, three masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 13 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 200-1st, 100-2nd and 800-3rd class. Launched on 28th Mar.1877, she sailed on her maiden voyage from Glasgow to Moville (Ireland) and New York on 2nd Jun.1877. Her last voyage on this service commenced 19th Oct.1893 (arr. NY 31/10). After this, she made an occasional voyage for Barrow Steamship Co, but was mostly laid up until Jul.1899 when she went to Hamburg for scrapping. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.1, p.460] [Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.9, Anchor Line] - [Posted to the ShipsList by Ted Finch - 2 October 1998]

The 1887-88 Lloyd's Register of Shipping has the following details on the Devonia: Call sign: QPRK Official registration #: 76879. Master: Captain H. Young, appointed to the shipping line in 1868 and to the ship in 1879. Rigging: iron single screw steam Bark; 2 iron decks and spar deck, partly iron; 4 tiers of Beams; 6 cemented bulkheads and 1 partial bulkhead. Tonnage: 4,270 tons gross, 4,121 under deck and 2,772 net. Dimensions: 400.3 feet long, 42 foot beam and 25.1 feet in depth. House on deck 149 tons. Built: in 1877 by Barrow Ship Building Co. in Barrow. Propulsion: compound inverted engine with 2 cylinders of 59 and 107 inches diameter respectively. Stroke 48 inches. Operating at 65 p.s.i. pressure. 600 HP. Engine built by the same company as the hull. Owners: Barrow Steam Ships Co. Ltd. Port of registry: Barrow. [Posted to The ShipsList by Gilbert Provost - 2 October 1998]

DEVONIAN
See MAYFLOWER (2).

D. H. WATJEN
The D. H. WATJEN was a 3-masted, square-rigged sailing ship, the first of three vessels of this name, was built by the shipbuilder Johann Lange, of Vegesack/Grohn, for the Bremen firm of D. H. Watjen, and launched on 20 March 1855. 573 Commerzlasten; 57,9 x 11,3 x 6,4 meters (length x beam x depth of hold). Until the early 1860's, under her first captain, Hermann Batjer, the D. H. WATJEN made 2 annual sailings from Bremerhaven to New York, on each voyage carrying from 400 to 500 passengers, returning to Europe with a cargo of tobacco and cotton. In 1859/60, the D. H. WATJEN sailed from Cardiff to Valparaiso with a cargo of coal, returning to New York with a cargo of guano. She then engaged in a regular trans-Atlantic service, sailing from New York to Liverpool, to London, and several times to Genoa. Capt. Batjer was succeeded as master by Adolf Julicher. On her last voyage, the D. H. WATJEN sailed from Livorno to New York with a cargo of marble. On 19 August 1866, the D. H. WATJEN lay at a pier in Jersey City, with a full cargo of tobacco, ready to sail for Genoa, when a vessel loaded with petroleum exploded in her immediate vicinity. The D. H. WATJEN could not be freed from her moorings, and together with the bark FREE TRADE, which was loading a cargo of tobacco for Naples, was engulfed in flames, becoming a total wreck, although part of her cargo was later salvaged in damaged condition. According to the Bremen Weser-Zeitung for 6 October 1866, the damaged tobacco was sold at auction for approximately $13,800. The complete cargo was insured in France "auf offene Police" for 1 million Franks, and would have been insured for 300,000 additional Franks, if the telegraph report of the fire had not arrived before the insured could establish the full value of the cargo [Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), p. 227, no. 228]. No picture of the D. H. WATJEN is known to survive. - [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 9 August 1998]

DIADEM
The DIADEM was a sternwheel packet, built at Monongahela, Pennsylvania, in 1860. 154 x 33 x 4.9 ft (length x beam x depth of hold); wood hull. Built for the Pittsburgh-St. Louis trade, Capt.Rogers. Served as a U.S. army transport during the Civil War. Lost in ice at St. Louis, 13 January 1866, Capt. J. Wolff [Frederick Way, Jr., Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1994; Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America (revised edition; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1994)p. 127, packet #1533]. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 16 December 1997]

DIANA
The British Brig Diana, Alexander Melain Master. There were 250 passengers, the vessel was old and unseaworthy. It was becalmed on the banks of Newfoundland, where the water allowance was reduced to four quarts a day; but there were plenty of cod-fish, and they did not suffer for food. They landed in Quebec, August 3, 1827, 66 days after leaving Belfast. This is all I have concerning this ship. They left Belfast in May of 1827. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Fran Gamble Pugh - 14 October 1997]

DICKEY SAM
According to the annual volumes of Lloyd's Register for 1841/42-1866/67, the DICKEY SAM was a bark, built in Liverpool, in 1841. 174/305 tons; 101.6 x 24.3 x 16 feet (length x breadth x depth of hold). Master: 1841/42-1842/43 - J. Carter; 1842/43-1848/49 - J. Coaker; 1849/50-1851/52 - Thompson; 1851/52-1852/53 - T. Power; 1853/54-1857/58 - [not given]; 1858/59-1859/60 - J. Watson; 1860/61-1863/64 - W. Lyall; 1863/64-1866/67 - W. Cumming. Owner:1841/42-1850/51 - Thompson; 1851/52-1852/53 - Coubr'gh; 1853/54-1857/58 - Poole & Co.; 1858/59-1860/61 - King & Co.; 1861/62-1866/67 - W. Cumming. Registry:1841/42-1857/58 - Liverpool; 1858/59-1866/67 - Glasgow. Port of Survey: 1841/42-1857/58 - Liverpool; 1858/59-1863/64 - Clydeside; 1863/64-1865/66 - Cardiff; 1865/66-1866/67 - Clydeside. Destined Voyage: 1841/42-1842/43 - Buenos Aires; 1842/43-1844/45 - Rio de Janeiro; 1843/44-1846/47 - Bombay; 1846/47-1848/49 - Batavia; 1848/49-1851/52 - Lima; 1851/52-1852/53 - [not given]; 1853/54-1857/58 - Panama; 1858/59-1859/60 - [not given]; 1860/61-1866/67 - West Indies. On 6 September 1866, the bark DICKEY SAM, carrying a cargo of railway chairs, was stranded 1 mile above the buoy of Shipwash Sand, with the loss of 13 lives [Wrecks, casualties and collisions on the coasts of the United Kingdom during one year occasioning loss of life, chronologically arranged, from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of December 1866, inclusive, Parliamentary Papers 1867 (Command 3902) lxiv.410]. - [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 20 January 1998]

DIVONA
See ORMUZ .

DNESTR
See HOLSATIA.

DOCTOR BARTH
The DOCTOR BARTH was a 3-masted, square-rigged ship, built in Apendrade, Schleswig (now Denmark), in 1853/55, by T. A. Andersen; Bielbrief Apenrade 26 October 1855. 317 Commerzlasten; 51,4 x 8,3 x 5,9 meters (170' x 30' 7" x 21' 5" Hamburg measurement, length x beam x depth of hold). The original owners were Thomas Julius Andersen, son of the builder (2/3), and the Hamburg shipowner Robert Miles Sloman (1/3); Sloman acquired full ownership of the vessel in 1857. In October 1874, Sloman sold the DOCTOR BARTH to Nyholm, in Copenhagen; I have no record of her later history; however, if she was registered with the Bureau Veritas (the Continental equivalent to Lloyd's), it is possible that the Bureau's annual shipping register may contain some later information on her. To determine whether the Bureau Veritas registers contain any later information on the DOCTOR BARTH, contact The Mariners' Museum, 100 Museum Dr., Newport News, VA 23606-3798, which contains the most complete collection of American and foreign ship registers in the United States. Masters:1855-1857 - C. Koch, 1857 - J. H. Niemann, 1858-1868 - H. Meyer, 1869-1874 - C. Bockwoldt. Journeys: 1855/1857 - from Apenrade/intermediate ports/London 1857-1873 - almost exclusively to New York, except a journey in 1857 New York/Hull; 1861/62 New York/Swansea; 1866/67, 1867, 1868/69 New York/Bremerhaven; 1868 New York/Geestemunde; 1870/71 New York/Havre, 1873/1874 - Victoria (Brazil) /Dona Francisca. Sources: Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5. (Hamburg: Museum fur Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), Bd. 2, p. 211; Ernst Hieke, Rob. M. Sloman Jr., Errichtet 1793, Veroffentlichungen der Wirtschaftsgeschichtlichen Forschungsstelle e.V., Hamburg, Bd. 30 (Hamburg: Verlag Hanseatischer Merkur, 1968), p. 374. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 21 November 1997]

DOCTOR KANE
The DOCTOR KANE was a bark, built under special survey by William Power, in Quebec, in 1857. 609 (readmeasured 607, in 1863) tons; 157 x 29.3 x 18.2 feet (length x beam x depth of hold). Official No.: 33335. She was transferred from the Quebec to the Londonderry registry in 1859 (Quebec registry closed 28 June 1859). Lloyd's Register for 1859-1869 contains the following additional information on her: Master: 1859 - not given; 1860-1862 - J. M'Cay; 1862-1869 - S. Milligan. Owner: J. & J. Cooke. Port of Registry: Londonderry. Port of Survey: 1859 - Liverpool; 1860-1869 - Clydeside. Intended Destination: 1859 - North America; 1860-1862 - Quebec; 1862-1869 - West Indies. Lloyd's Register for 1870 contains no reference to the DOCTOR KANE, which was last surveyed in December 1862. I do not know anything of her later history, although there may be some information in Eileen Marcil, The Charley-Man: a history of wooden shipbuilding at Quebec, 1763-1893 (Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press, 1993). For lists of passengers that sailed on the DOCTOR KANE during her years in the Irish-Canadian service, see Brian Mitchell, comp., Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871; Lists of Passengers Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J. & J. Cooke Line and the McCorkell Line (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988). [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 8 December 1997]

DOMINION (1)
The first "Dominion" was built by A.McMillan & Son, Dumbarton (engines by J.Jack, Rollo & Co, Liverpool) in 1873 for the Dominion Line of Liverpool. This was a 3,176 gross ton ship, length 335ft x beam 38.4ft, straight stem, one funnel, three masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. There was accommodation for 130-cabin class and 600-3rd class passengers. Launched on 22/11/1873, she sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Quebec and Montreal on 6/5/1874. On 11/7/1885 she commenced her first Avonmouth - Quebec - Montreal voyage and in 1890 was fitted with triple expansion engines. She was sold to E.Thirkell & Co (British) in 1895 and on 4/1/1896 was wrecked at Castletown Berehaven, Ireland. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.2, p.804-5] - [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 4 May 1998]

The Lloyd's Register of Shipping lists in 1887-88: Call sign: NBLW Official registration #: 69342. Master: Captain T. Hunter. Rigging: iron single screw steam Bark; 3 decks and awning deck; 5 bulkheads cemented. Some repairs to the ship in 1878. Tonnage: 3,176 tons gross, 1,590 under deck and 2,032 net. Dimensions: 335 feet long, 38.4 foot beam and 25.7 feet deep. Built: in 1873 by A. McMillian & Sons in Dumbarton. Propulsion: compound inverted engine with 2 cylinders of 47 and 84 inches diameter respectively; stroke 45 inches. Operating at 65 p.s.i.. 300 horsepower. Engine built by J. Jack, Rollo & Co. in Liverpool. Owners: Mississippi & Dominion Steam Shipping Co. Port of registry: Liverpool. - [Posted to The ShipsList by Gilbert Provost - 13 October 1998]

DOMINION (2)
The "Dominion" of 1899 was built in 1893 by Harland & Wolff of Belfast as the "Prussia" for the German Hamburg - America Line. She was a 5965 gross ton ship, length 445.5ft x beam 50.2ft, one funnel, four masts, twin screw and a speed of 14 knots. Accommodation for 60-1st class and 1,800-3rd class passengers. She was launched on 10/11/1893 but her completion was delayed by a strike (they even had them in those days!) and she didn't leave Hamburg on her maiden voyage to Havre and New York until 24/6/1894. She stayed on this service until her last voyage on 6/2/1898 when she was sold to the British Dominion Line and renamed "Dominion". She was rebuilt with a tonnage of 6618 tons and accommodation for 200-1st, 170-2nd, and 750-3rd class passengers and commenced sailing Liverpool - Quebec - Montreal on 7/5/1898. In 1908 she went to the American Line, was further altered to carry 370-2nd and 750-3rd class passengers and was put onto their Liverpool - Philadelphia service until May 1915. She did some intervening Dominion Line sailings and in 1918 did her first voyage after the Armistice from Liverpool - Portland on 2/12/1918. In autumn 1919 she was used as a cargo ship only and on 26/2/1921 she made her last trip from Liverpool - Portland and was scrapped in Germany in 1922. [ North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1, p.400, vol.2, p.809] [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Ted Finch - 16 August 1997]

DON
See FURST BISMARCK.

DON ALVARO DE BAZAN
See GALLIA (1) .

DONA MARIA
The "Dona Maria" was built by Wigham Richardson & Co, Walker-on-Tyne. She was a 2,539 gross ton ship, length 330ft x beam 38.3ft, one funnel, three masts, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. There was accommodation for 50-1st and 700-3rd class passengers. Launched on 18th Oct.1887 as the "Port Fairy" for the Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Co of Newcastle, she sailed from London on her maiden voyage to Melbourne and Sydney on 2nd Jan.1888. After this one voyage, she was sold to the Portuguese owned Andresen Line and renamed "Dona Maria". Her first voyage for these owners started on 19th Nov.1892 when she left Lisbon for the Azores and New York. She started her last sailing on this service when she left Oporto for Lisbon, Azores and New York on 21st Nov.1903. In 1907 she was sold to the Booth Line of Liverpool, resumed her original name of "Port Fairy", and was employed on the Liverpool - River Amazon ports service. Sold to Ellerman Lines in 1909 and renamed "Italian", she was finally scrapped at Preston in 1913. [North Star to Southern Cross by John M.Maber] [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.3, p.1196] [South Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor] - [Posted to The Ships List by Ted Finch - 28 August 1998]

DONAU (1)
DONAU, Heydtmann, master, which arrived at New York on 16 May 1854, 36 days from Hamburg. This vessel, described in 1853 as a bark, and in 1854 and later as a ship, was built in Altona (now part of Hamburg, but then a port in the kingdom of Hannover) in 1853 by Dreyer for the Hamburg-Amerikanische Paketfahrt-Aktiengesellschaft (Hamburg American Line). 237 Commerzlasten (1 Commerzlast = 2,806.266 kilograms), measurement "zwischen den Steven" 139.6 x 31 x 19.6 (length x width x depth of hold) Hamburg feet (1 Hamburg foot = .28657 meters). She sailed almost exclusively on the Hamburg-New York route, although she also sailed to Charleston, SC, in 1858/59 and 1859/60, to London in 1861, to Hull in 1861 and 1862, and to Philadelphia in 1865. In 1866, she was sold, after having been damaged at sea, to Hall, of Boston, and sailed to Port Louis, Mauritius, as the DRESDEN [Walter Kresse, Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien 1824-1888, Teil 1, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Hamburgische Geschichte, N.F., 5 (Hamburg: Museum fur Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969). I know nothing of her later history, although she may be listed in Lloyd's Register of North American Shipping. There may be additional information on her, including a picture, in Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika-Linie, Bd. 1: 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979). Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 27 July 1997]

DONAU (2)
The "Donau" of 1883 was an iron built steamer, built by Caird & Co, Greenock for Norddeutscher Lloyd [North German Lloyd] in 1868. She was 2896 gross tons, length 332ft x beam 40ft, clipper stem, one funnel, two masts, single screw and a speed of 13 knots. There was accommodation for 60-1st and 700-3rd class passengers. Launched on 17/10/1868, she left Bremen on 16/1/1869 for her maiden voyage to Southampton and New York. In 1877 her engines were compounded and her last voyage Bremen - New York commenced 16/1/1887. Last voyage Bremen - Baltimore commenced 25/9/1889 and she was then sold to another German company. On 16/3/1895 she was abandoned and burnt out in the North Atlantic. Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Ted Finch]

The steamship DONAU was built by Caird & Co, Greenock (ship #147), for Norddeutscher Lloyd, and launched on 17 October 1868. 2,897 tons; 106,15 x 12,229 meters (length x breadth); clipper bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service speed 12-13 knots; accommodation for 60 1st-class and 700 steerage-class passengers; crew of ca. 90-105. 16 January 1869, maiden voyage, Bremen-Southampton-New York. 1877, engines compounded by builders. 16 January 1887, last voyage, Bremen-New York. 25 September 1889, last voyage, Bremen- Baltimore. 21 October 1889, sold to H. Bischoff, Bremen; rebuilt as a freighter. 16 March 1895, bound from Hamburg to Philadelphia, destroyed by fire at ca. 31 N 20 W; all aboard were saved by the British steamship DELAWARE [Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994, p.. 50; ; Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), p. 546]. Pictured in Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 82, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970 - [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 11 February 1998]

The Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1887-88 gives the following details: DONAU - Call sign: QBKH. Master: Captain Pohle. Rigging: iron single screw steam Brig. Tonnage: 2,896 tons gross and 1,771 net. Dimensions: 347.8 feet long, 40 foot beam and 33.5 feet deep. Built: 1868 by Caird & Co. in Greenock. Propulsion: compound engine with 2 cylinders of 60 and 100 in. diameter respectively; Stroke 54 inches; 600 horsepower; engine built by the same company as the hull. Owners: Norddeutscher Lloyd. Port of registry: Bremen.

N.R.P. Bonsor in Vol. 2 of his North Atlantic Seaway says the following: DONAU: Iron single screw steamer with clipper bow, 1 funnel and 2 masts. 2,896 tons gross and 332 feet long with 40 foot beam. Engine with two inverted cylinders given her a service speed of 13 knots. She had accommodation for 60 passengers in First Class and 700 in Third Class. She was launched on Oct. 17, 1868. She made her maiden voyage from Bremen to Southampton to New York on Jan. 16, 1869. In 1877 her builders, Caird & Co. compounded her engine. On Jan. 16, 1887 she made her last voyage between Bremen and New York. On Sept. 25, 1889 she made a last voyage between Bremen and Baltimore. On March 16, 1895, she was destroyed by fire in the North Atlantic and was abandoned. - [Posted to The ShipsList by Gilbert Provost - 3 November 1998]

DONEGAL
The British brig DONEGAL (Official Number 33717, International Signal Code R.G.L.S.) was built in Belfast in 1808. The annual volmes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1812, 1820, and 1834/35-1876/77 contain the following information on her: Tonnage: 1812 - 200; 1820 - 194; 1834/35-1852/53 - 196; 1853/54-1859/60 - 190/196; 1860/61-1874/75 - 174/196; 1875/76-1876/77 - 142/196. Master: 1812 - Courtney; 1820 - Gowan; 1834/35-1836/37 - J. Matches; 1836/37-1852/53 - J. Hodgson; 1853/54-1859/60 - R. Dixon; 1860/61 - W. Clark; 1861/62-1862/63 - Irvine; 1862/63-1864/65 - Wiltshire; 1864/65-1876/77 - Crossley. Owner: 1812, 1820 - G. Langtry; 1834/35-1835/36 - [not given]; 1836/37-1876/77 - Hodgson. Port of Registry: 1812, 1820 - [not given]; 1834/35-1836/37 - Whitehaven; 1836/37-1852/53 - Maryport; 1853/54-1876/77 - Whitehaven. Port of Survey: 1812 - London; 1820 - Belfast; 1834/35-1835/36 - [not given]; 1836/37-1840/41 - Maryport; 1840/41-1842/43 - Whitehaven; 1842/43-1843/44 - Liverpool; 1844/45-1859/60 - Whitehaven; 1860/61 - Marypoart; 1861/62-1876/77 - Whitehaven. Destined Voyage (-1873/74): 1812 - Belfast; 1820 - London; 1834/35-1835/36 - [not given]; 1836/37-1840/41 - North America; 1840/41-1842/43 - Dublin; 1842/43-1843/44 - Newfoundland; 1844/45-1845/46 - [not given]; 1846/47-1847/48 - Dublin; 1848/49-1850/51 - North America; 1851/52-1852/53 - coaster; 1853/54-1854/55 - Quebec; 1844/45-1859/60 - [not given]; 1860/61-1873/74 - coaster. The 1812 and 1820 volumes of Lloyd's Register also indicate that the DONEGAL had a single deck with beams, and that she drew 15 feet of water when fully loaded. Lloyd's Register for 1876/77 contains the notation "lost". However, the event may have occurred some time before 1876/77, as the DONEGAL appears to have been last surveyed in May 1865. Fortunately, the National Maritime Museum (NMM), Greenwich, London SE10 9NF,, has among its collections wreck registers maintained by the Board of Trade from 1855, in accordance with the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854. The NMM is your best possible source for additional information on the history and ultimate fate of the DONEGAL, as well as for information on any surviving pictorial representations of her. - [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 10 February 1998]

DONGEDYK
See DELFTDYKE.

DONLINSK
See PRINZ EITEL FREIDRICH (1)

DON MATIAS
See VALPARAISO (2) .

DORETTE
According to Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), pp. 279-280, the bark DORETTE was built by Hermann Friedrich Ulrichs, in Vegesack, for the firm of Carl Pokrantz & Co. , Bremen, and was launched on 3 November 1855. 242 Commerzlasten/503 tons register; 40,5 x 9,0 x 5,1 meters (length x beam x depth of hold); International Signal Code: QBLS. Her captains were: Joh. Grabau, Vegesack; Joh. Hinr. Getjen, Bremen (1860); Cord Gustavus, Vegesack (1861); B. Schumacher, Bremen (1863); LFCder Schulken, Bremen (1864). The vessel was primarily engaged in the transatlantic freight and passenger service. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 15 November 1997]

DOVER CASTLE
I have very little on the "Dover Castle", only that she was owned by Shaw Savill & Co, and was built in 1858 as a wooden barque of 1,003 tons [The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock] [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 13 December 1997]

The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for the years 1858/59-1881/82 indicate that the DOVER CASTLE was a three-masted vessel, originally rigged as a ship, but re-rigged in late 1874/early 1875 as a bark, built under special survey at Sunderland in 1858. Official number 20847; signal code N.C.T.R. 1003/1003/881 tons (gross/net/under-deck); 185 x 34 x 22 feet (length x beam x depth of hold); poop deck 73 feet long, forecastle 30 feet long. She was owned first by R. Green (presumably of the firm of Richard & Henry Green, shipbuilders and owners of Blackwall, London) (1858/59-1871/72), then by Shaw, Savill & Co (1871/72-1880/81), then by C. Y. Boe, of Arendal, Norway, who changed her name to KEM (1880/81-1881/82). Master: 1858/59-1861/62 - Adams; 1861/62-1864/65 - Ayles; 1864/65-1870/71 - R. Deacon; 1870/71-1872/73 - W. F. Owen; 1872/73-1874/75 - R. Kerr; 1874/75-1880/81 - A. Culbert; 1880/81-1881/82 - not given. Port of Registry: 1858/59-1880/81 - London; 1880/81-1881/82 - Arendal. Port of Survey: 1858/59-1881/82 - London. Destined Voyage (omitted from the Register after 1873/74): 1858/59-1859/60 - not given; 1860/61-1870/71 - Australia; 1870/71-1871/72 - India; 1871/72-1873/74 - not given. I do not know the later history of ultimate fate of the KEM, late DOVER CASTLE. For further information on the DOVER CASTLE, check David macGregor, Merchant Sailing Ships, 1850-1875 (London: Conway Maritime Press, 1985), and contact the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, which has an excellent collection of sources for the history of sailing vessels to Australia, and whose Pathfinder No.2: Immigration Sailing Ships, is a particularly useful research guide. For surviving accounts of voyages to Australia on board the DOVER CASTLE, check Ian Hawkins Nicholson, Log of logs : a catalogue of logs, journals, shipboard diaries, letters, and all forms of voyage narratives, 1788 to 1988, for Australia and New Zealand and surrounding oceans, Roebuck Society Publication Nos. 41, 47 (2 vols; Yaroomba, Qld: The Author jointly with the Australian Association for Maritime History, [1990]-1993). [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 16 December 1997]

DOVER CASTLE (2)
The "Dover Castle" was a 8,271 gross ton ship, built in 1904 by Barclay Curle, & Co, Glasgow for the Union Castle Mail SS Co. Her details were - length 475ft x beam 56ft, single funnel, twin screws and a speed of 14 knots. There was accommodation for 220-1st and 250-3rd class passengers. There was also capacity to carry about 300 passengers in open-berth accommodation. She was used on the UK - South Africa service until converted to a hospital ship for the Great War. Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC.67 on 26th May 1917, with 632 patients, while 50 miles north of Bona. [The Cape Run by W.H.Mitchell & L.A.Sawyer] - [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 21 May 1998]

DRACHENSTEIN
See CASSANDRA.

DRAFNA
The Drafna was owned by Hans Ki?r & Co in Drammen. Master was Hartvig Eckersberg. She had a burden of 185,5 Norwegian Kommerselester, measures: 102,5 x 27,2 x 17,8. Drafna is said to have been a very solid built ship.When Drafna ones hit solid rock, and was stuck, the insurance company wanted to send down a diver to check for damages. One of the owners them said that they would be welcome to do so, if they wanted to se if the rock had been damaged. Agents were shipbroker Bang in Drammen, and the ship captain. Drafna was used for freight of timber from Canada. Condemned in Queenstown in 1890 on passage from Quebec to Liverpool with timber. Drafna sailed in 1849, 1850, 1852 and 1853 with emigrants from Norway to America. It is possible that she also made a crossing with passengers in 1848. [From The Solem and Swiggum Ship Index - [E-mail from Ann Helgeson - 9 June 1998]

DRAGO
See H.H. MEIER.

DRESDEN (1)
(of 1866) See DONAU.

DRESDEN (2)
The "Dresden" of 1888 was the first of two ships with this name owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd). She was built by Fairfield Co. Ltd, Glasgow in 1888 and was a 4,527 gross ton ship, length 390.5ft x beam 46.7ft, one funnel, two masts, single screw and a speed of 13 knots. Passenger accommodation for 38-1st, 20-2nd and 1,759-3rd class. Launched on 1/12/1888, she sailed from Bremen on her maiden voyage to Baltimore on 10/4/1889. On 29/5/1889 she transferred to the Bremen - Suez Canal - Far East route for one round voyage and on 30/12/1889 went onto the Bremen - South America service. On 9/7/1890 she started a single round voyage from Bremen to Suez and Australia and on 18/5/1892 commenced sailings from Bremen to New York. Started her last Bremen - Baltimore voyage on 15/5/1902 and on 15/11/1902 commenced her last Bremen - S.America sailing (5 Round voyages). Her last Bremen - New York - Baltimore voyage commenced on 12/5/1903 (19 N.Atlantic round voyages). In 1903 she went to Houston Line and was renamed "Helius" and in 1904 went to Union Castle Line and was laid up. In 1906 she was sold to Turkey and was renamed "Tirimujghian" and in 1914 was sunk by the Russians in the Black Sea. [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 15 November 1997]

DROMAHAIR
The DROMAHAIR was not a ship but a bark, a 3-masted vessel, the fore- and mainmasts square-rigged, the mizzenmast (the mast closest the stern) rigged fore-and-aft, 353/376 tons (old/new measurement), built at New Brunswick in 1841. She is listed in Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1843/44 through 1858/59: Master: 1843/44-1854/55 - P[atrick] Pyne; 1855/56-1856/57 - Richards; 1857/58 - A. Plaine; 1858/59 - J. Gill. Owner: 1843/44-1849/50 - Kernagh[a]n; 1850/51-1858/59 - Pyne & Co. Port of Registry: Sligo. Port of Survey: 1843/44-1844/45 - Clydeside; 1844/45-1846/47 - London; 1846/47-1849/49 - Clydeside; 1849/50 - [not given]; 1850/51 - Clydeside; 1851/52 - Dublin; 1852/53-1854/55 - Clydeside; 1855/56-1856/57 - Sligo; 1857/58-1858/59 - Clydeside. Destined Voyage: 1843/44-1844/45 - Montreal; 1844/45-1846/47 - North America; 1846/47-1848/49 - New York; 1849/50 - [not given]; 1850/51 - New York; 1851/52 - Quebec; 1852/53-1854/55 - New York; 1855/56-1858/59 - Quebec. The DROMAHAIR last appears in Lloyd's Register for 1858/59, without any indication of her fate. - [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 29 March 1998]

DROTTNINGHOLM
See VIRGINIAN.

DUCA D'AOSTA
The "Duca d'Aosta" belonged to NGI. She was built by Cantieri Navale Siciliani, Palermo and launched on 29/9/1908. Her dimensions were 7804 gross tons, length 144,77m x beam 16,24m, two funnels, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 16 knots. Passenger accommodation for 66-1st, 122-2nd and 1,740-3rd class passengers. She commenced her maiden voyage from Genoa to Naples and New York on 9/11/1909 and her last voyage on this run on 20/11/1912. On 30/12/1912 she commenced sailing from Genoa to the River Plate and on 7/7/1914 resumed the Genoa - Naples - New York service. Her last voyage on this run started on 20/6/1921 and she then went back to the S.American service. Scrapped in 1929. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Ted Finch - 15 September 1997]

DUCA DEGLI ABRUZZI
The "Duca Degli Abruzzi" was built by Cantieri Navale Riuniti, Spezia for the Italian company Navigazione Generale Italiana. She was a 7793 gross ton vessel, length 475.8ft x beam 53.4ft, two funnels, two masts, twin screw, and a speed of 16 knots. She had accommodation for 80-1st, 16-2nd and 1,740-3rd class passengers. Launched on 5/5/1907, she left Genoa on her maiden voyage for Naples and New York on 4/2/1908. She stayed on the Mediterranean - New York service until leaving Naples for New York on her last voyage on this service on 22/11/1911 and was then used as an Italian Auxiliary Cruiser until 2/10/1912 and was then transferred to the South America run ( Genoa - River Plate service). On 11/10/1914 she resumed the Genoa - Naples - New York service until her last run leaving Genoa on 20/1/1916. I have no knowledge of her between then and 28/11/1918 when she resumed service New York - Genoa. (she may well have been laid up during this period). On 23/5/1922 she sailed from Genoa on her last voyage to Naples - Messina - New York and spent the rest of her career on the S.American run. She was scrapped in 1929. There is a picture of her sister ship "Duca d'Aosta" in North Atlantic Seaway Vol.3, p.1104. by NRP Bonsor. 1929. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Ted Finch - 15 September 1997]

DUCA DI GENOVA
The "Duca di Genova" was a 7,893 gross ton ship, built by Cantieri Navale Riuniti, Spezia (engines by N.Odero & Co, Sestri Ponente) in 1907 for Navigazione Generale Italiana. Her details were - length 475.8ft x beam 53.4ft, two funnels, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 16 knots. There was accommodation for 80-1st, 16-2nd and 1,740-3rd class passengers. Launched on 8/9/1907, she sailed from Genoa on her maiden voyage to Naples and New York on 18/10/1908. She commenced her last round voyage on this service on 29/10/1912 and was then transferred to the Italian company, La Veloce. She was used mainly on the Genoa - South America service, but started a single Genoa - Palermo - Naples - New York round voyage on 27/9/1914. In 1915 she made a further sailing on this route and in 1916 made two N.Atlantic voyages, the last one starting on 11/9/1916. She was then used as an Italian troopship until 6/2/1918 when she was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean by the German submarine U.64 near Cape Canet, France. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.3, p.1118] - [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 8 June 1998]

DUCHESS OF BEDFORD
The "Duchess of Bedford" was built by John Brown & Co Ltd, Glasgow in 1928 for Canadian Pacific SS Ltd. She was a 20,123 gross ton ship, length 601ft x beam 75.2ft, two funnels, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 18 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 580-cabin, 480-tourist and 510-3rd class. Launched on 24/1/1928 by Mrs Stanley Baldwin, the wife of the British prime minister, she sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Quebec and Montreal on 1/6/1928. On her second westbound crossing, she set a new record of six days, nine and a half hours from Liverpool to Montreal. In July 1933 she was in collision with an iceberg in Belle Isle Strait, but sustained only slight damage. Five days before the declaration of war in 1939, she was chartered for a trooping voyage to Bombay, and on 5/1/1940 resumed Liverpool - St John NB - Halifax voyages, being used on the Eastbound crossings to ferry Canadian troops to Britain. In August 1940 she commenced the first of three voyages to Suez via Freetown and Cape Town. In November 1941 she left Liverpool on a 5 month voyage which took her to Singapore with 4000 Indian troops and 40 nurses. Arriving at the end of January 1942, she embarked 875 women and children for evacuation to Batavia, Java. Although attacked on several occasions, she was not seriously damaged, and arrived at Liverpool on 2/4/1942. After two trips to Cape Town, she sailed from Liverpool for Boston on 7/8/1942 and on 9th August, sighted a U-Boat and sank her by gunfire. She was later used in the North African landings and shot down an enemy aircraft in November 1943. Later used in the Sicily and Salerno landings and various trooping voyages, and prisoner of war repatriations. On 3/3/1947 she arrived at Glasgow to be refitted to carry 400-1st and 300-tourist class passengers, her speed increased to 20 knots, and was renamed "Empress of France" in October 1947. She resumed Liverpool - Quebec - Montreal sailings on 1/9/1948 and in 1958 was fitted with new streamlined funnels and her accommodation altered to carry 218-1st and 482-tourist class passengers. She started her last Montreal - Liverpool crossing on 30/11/1960 having made 310 round voyages on the North Atlantic, and on 19/12/1960 sailed from Liverpool for Newport, Monmouthshire where she was scrapped. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.3, p.1317-18][Canadian Pacific - 100 years by George Musk] - [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 4 April 1998]

DUILIO
The "Duilio" was laid down in 1914, but, due to the war, was not launched until 1916 and did not sail on her maiden voyage to New York until 1923. She was built by G. Ansaldo & Co, Sestri Ponente, Italy for Navigazione Generale Italiana. Her dimensions were 24,281 gross tons, length 602.4ft x beam 76.3ft, two funnels, two masts, four screws and a speed of 19 knots. There was accommodation for 280-1st, 670-2nd, and 600-3rd class passengers. Launched on 9/1/1916, she left Genoa on 29/10/1923 on her maiden voyage to Naples and New York and sailed on her last run on this service on 24/7/1928, when she was transferred to the South America service. In 1932, she went to the Italia Line and was transferred to the South Africa run in 1933. In 1937 she went to Lloyd Triestino and on 10/7/1944 was bombed and sunk at Trieste. Refloated in 1948 and scrapped. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Ted Finch]

DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
The "Duke of Buckingham", built in 1880 for the Ducal Line by Barrow Shipbuilding Co, Barrow. She was a 3,123 gross ton ship, length 384ft x beam 38.3ft, one funnel, four masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. She sailed from London on her first voyage to Suez, Batavia, Brisbane and Newcastle, NSW on 4th December 1882 and stayed on this joint service with British India Stem Nav. Co until 1886. In December 1886 she was chartered to the Huntington Line and sailed between London, Havre and Newport News(arrived 13/1/1887). In Feb.1887 she started her first Liverpool - Newport News voyage and made her last sailing on this service in March 1888 (arr. Newport News 3rd April). She then went back to the Australia route and made her last sailing to Brisbane on 25/8/1900. In 1900 she was sold to Macbeth & Grey and in 1902 was resold to Italian owners. She was broken up at Genoa in July 1903.[orth Star to Southern Cross by John M.Maber, p.171-176] [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.3, p.1174-5] - [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 22 April 1998]

DUKE OF WESTMINSTER
The "Duke of Westminster" was built in 1882 by the Barrow Shipbuilding Co, Barrow for the Ducal Line. She was a 3,726 gross ton ship, length 400ft x beam 40.3ft (121,91m x 12,28m), one funnel, four masts, single screw and a speed of 12 knots. There was accommodation for 40-1st class, plus 3rd class passengers. Launched on 27th April 1882, she was used for the joint service with British India Steam Nav.Co between London, Suez, Batavia and Brisbane. She started her first voyage on this service on 2/7/1883 and her last on 26/6/1902. Between 1886-88 she was chartered to the Huntington Line and made several voyages between London or Liverpool and Newport News. In 1903 she was sold to Italian owners, renamed "Westminster" and was scrapped at Genoa in September 1903. [North Star to Southern Cross by John M.Maber, p.171-176] [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.3, p.1174] - [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 22 April 1998]

DUNBAR CASTLE
The "Dunbar Castle" (named after a castle in East Lothian) was built in 1930 by Harland & Wolff, Govan for the Union Castle Mail SS Co. She was a 10,002 gross ton ship, two funnels and two masts and was employed on the London - round Africa service, in which some ships sailed out via Suez and home via the Cape and some in the reverse direction. She was sunk by a magnetic mine on 9th January 1940, two miles East of the Goodwin Sands while on passage from London to Beira. She was the first war loss of the company. [The Cape Run by W.H.Mitchell & L.A.Sawyer] [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 8 December 1997]

Shipwreck Index of the British Isles (Richard & Bridget Larn:pub Lloyds Reg of Shipping) has to say about The wreck of the Dunbar Castle:
"Outward bound in convoy, she detonated a magnetic mine which went off right beneath her bridge, causing her to founder in 30 minutes. The convoy was passing through a swept channel at the time, HM minesweeper Calvi, working off the North Foreland, went to her rescue. They picked up two lifeboats of survivors, 73 in total, including four women, two of whom were nuns, some children all completely naked, and members of the crew. Captain Causton was seriously injured in the explosion and was found dead in one of the lifeboats, another man was in such a severe state of shock that he refused to leave the lifeboat, continuing to sit in a stupor until he died. The crew of the Calvi handed out tots of rum until they ran out, when a coastal motor barge arrived on the scene and took off the survivors and landed them at Ramsgate. HMS Calvi brought in both lifeboats which were sold at Dover for 14 pounds. Her cargo consisted of 4,400 tons of automatic scales, spoons, gin, herrings etc. The wreck was dispersed by explosives in 1959, her remains lie in 18m depth, standing 3m above the seabed."
The convoy records, which will probably hold details of the incident including the Board of Trade enquiry (and therefore probably eye witness accounts) are open to the public. There have been several postings recently by people whose relatives sailed on British owned troop ships in WWll and they might like to know that all the convoy records are held at the Public Record Office.. [Posted to The ShipsList by Debbie Beavis - 8 December 1997]

DUNERA
The "Dunera" was built as a troopship by Barclay Curle & Co, Glasgow in 1937. She was a 12,620 gross ton ship, length 517ft x beam 63ft, one funnel, two masts, diesel engines and twin screws. Managed by British India Steam Navigation Co, she was occasionaly used before the war for passenger cruises during the summer months to Northern capitals. In 1940 she was used to bring Australian and New Zealand troops to Suez and in 1942 was involved with the invasion of Madagascar. In 1943 she took part in the Sicily landings and in 1944 carried the US headquarters staff for the landings near Cannes in southern France. After the war, she continued on trooping duties to Malaya and in 1950-51 was used for the Korean war. In 1956 she was involved in the Suez crisis when the Suez Canal was nationalised. She was released from trooping in 1961, being replaced by the new "Oxfordshire" and "Nevasa" as well as air travel. She was then refitted for use as a schools' educational cruise ship and painted white. In 1967 she was scrapped at Bilbao. [Taken from Ships Monthly magazine article by R.G.Robertson, July - December 1990] There are excellent photos of this ship in Shipping Monthly, July 1990 and December 1991 - [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 5 April 1998]

DUNOLLY CASTLE
See IOANNINA .

DWINSK
The "Dwinsk" was built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast in 1897 as the third "Rotterdam" for the Holland America Line. She was an 8,302 gross ton ship, length 470.3ft x beam 53.2ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 14 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 200-1st, 150-2nd and 2,000-3rd class. Launched on 18/2/1897, she sailed from Rotterdam on her maiden voyage to Boulogne and New York on 18/8/1897. She started her last voyage on this service on 17/2/1906 and then went to the Scandinavian American Line and was renamed "C.F.Tietgen". See the Norwegian emigration site . On 26/4/1906 she commenced her first Copenhagen - Christiania (Oslo) - Christiansand - New York voyage and started her last voyage on this service on 6/11/1913. She then went to the Russian American Line, was renamed "Dwinsk" and commenced sailings between Libau and New York on 10/2/1914. Her last voyage on this service started 28/7/1914 and she transferred to Archangel - Hammerfest - New York sailings on 20/9/1914. In 1917 she was put under Cunard management and sailed under the British flag until 18/6/1918 when she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U.151, 400 miles from Bermuda. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.3, p.1356] - [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 16 February 1998]