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From: "Michael Palmer" <>
Subject: Re: Germans to America 1871
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 00:42:35 -800


On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, CDuclos <> wrote:

> Could someone please look up the following family? They emigrated to
> the US (New York) in 1871, prior to October.
> John George HUMMEL b. 1834 a farmer from Wurttemberg. His wife: Maria
> Rosina (LANG) HUMMEL b. 1835 in Wurttemberg. Children: Anna b. 1858;
> Mary b. 1859; Frederic b. 1861; George b. 1865; Louise Christina b.
> 1866; Julia b. 1868 and Christopher Emanuel b. 1869.

Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby, ed., _Germans to America; Lists of
Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports_ (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly
Resources, 1988ff.), vol. 25, p. 232, includes the following names among
the passengers on board the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship BREMEN, Capt.
Ladewig, which arrived at New York on 15 June 1871 (passenger manifest
dated the same day), from Bremen 31 May, via Southampton 3 June:

Hummel, Johann, 37, male, farmer
Rosine, 36, female
Anna, 12, female
Maria, 9, female
Gottfried, 8, male
Johann Georg, 6, male
Christian, 1, male
Christine, 9 months, female

The published information differs from your information on a number of
points. However, you should be aware that the abstracts in _Germans to
America_ are notoriously inaccurate. You should therefore check the
published information against the microfilm copy of the original manifest
of arriving passengers, which you will find in National Archives Microfilm
Publication M237, roll 344. You can borrow a copy of this microfilm roll
through AGLL (http://www.agll.com), any LDS (Mormon) Family History Center
(Family History Library microfilm #0175700), or Interlibrary Loan.

The steamship BREMEN was built by Caird & Co, Greenock, Scotland (ship
#58), for Norddeutscher Lloyd--the first of 5 passenger steamships of
this name owned by the line--at a cost of 1,281,000 gold marks, and
launched on 1 February 1858. 2,674 tons; 97,53 x 11,89 meters/320 x 39
feet (length x breadth); clipper bow, 1 funnel, 3 masts (barkentine
rigged); iron construction, screw propulsion, service speed 11 knots;
accommodation for 160 passengers in 1st class, 110 in 2nd, and 401 in
steerage; crew of between 102 and 118; freight capacity 1,000 tons; coal
capacity 850 tons, burned at the rate of 2.2-2.5 kilos per horsepower
hour. 19 June 1858, maiden voyage, Bremen-New York, carrying 115
passengers and 150 tons of freight; upon arrival at New York (4 July),
she made a demonstration cruise to Sandy Hook, with invited guests that
included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 14 January 1860, reached Southampton
under sail with a broken shaft; out of service undergoing repairs at
Southampton for 6 months. 8 July 1860, resumed Bremen-New York service.
1864, a Krupp steel shaft installed, and boiler pre-heating. 5 November
1873, last voyage, Bremen-Southampton-New York. June 1874, along with the
steamship NEW YORK, sold to E. Bates & Co., Liverpool, for 19,000 pounds;
both vessels converted to sail. 16 October 1882, ran ashore on the
Farallon Islands, 27 miles outside the Golden Gate, San Francisco,
directly under the light house, in a dense fog. The cargo of coal and
whiskey was insured, the ship was not. Small craft waited for the whiskey
cargo to float up; in 1929, a T. H. P. Whitelaw proposed raising the
whiskey, but was prevented from doing so by the U.S. government [Edwin
Drechsel, _Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship
Mails_, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994), p. 13; 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. 544].

No photograph of the BREMEN during its years as a passenger steamship is
known to survive; however, there is a painting of her, by Fritz M"uller,
in the Bremer Museum f"ur Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte (Focke-Museum),
Schwachhauser Heerstrasse 240, D-28213 Bremen, from whom you can obtain a
color postcard. I am sending you, by separate e-mail, a black-and-white
scan, in .JPG format, of this painting, taken from Clas Broder Hansen,
_Passenger liners from Germany, 1816-1990_, translated from the German by
Edward Force (West Chester, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Pub., c1991), p. 25.

Michael Palmer
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Michael Palmer
Claremont, California

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