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From: "Michael Palmer" <>
Subject: Re: Bremen ship UHLAND
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 02:13:00 -800


On Fri, 02 Oct 1998, "W. B. Atkins, Jr." <> wrote:

> Carl Doss and his family are supposed to have arrived in Galveston, TX
> aboard this ship in May 1850. Can anyone confirm this? And please
> don't depend on Michael Palmer to look this up; I don't believe he has
> the information because I have put this request on this group twice,
> another group he is on once, and I have sent him two emails. Evidently
> he is too busy or lacks the information.

It is impolitic to post, on a public forum, derogatory comments about an
individual, since it is one of life's ironies that the person you trash
is often the person with the answer to your question.

I have no record that the UHLAND ever dropped anchor at Galveston. The
Bremen ship UHLAND, J[ohann] W"achter, master, sailed from Bremerhaven on
23 April 1850, with 311 passengers, and arrived at New Orleans on Sunday,
16 June 1850, after a voyage of 54 days. She then returned to Europe,
most probably with a cargo of cotton. Those passengers bound for Texas
almost certainly proceeded on one of the following three vessels:
1. steamship MARIA BURT, J. R. Young, master, which sailed from New
Orleans at 5 PM on Wednesday, 19 June 1850, bound for Galveston;
2. steamship GLOBE, Talbot, master, which cleared from New Orleans on
Thursday, 20 June 1850, for Brazos Santiago; or
3. steamship PALMETTO, J. Smith, master, which sailed from New Orleans
at 9 AM on Sunday, 23 June 1850 for Galveston, Indianola, and Port
Lavaca.

The U.S. Customs lists of passengers arriving at the port of New Orleans
are incomplete, but if the passenger manifest for the above voyage of the
UHLAND survives (and the fact that it is not abstracted in _Germans to
America_ does not constitute proof that it does not survive--see my review
of _Germans to America_ at
http://www.genealogy.com/gene/www/emig/gta-revu.html) you will find a
microfilm copy of this manifest (possibly dated Monday, 17 June, or
Tuesday, 18 June 1850) in National Archives Microfilm Publication M259,
roll 32, a copy of which you can borrow through AGLL
(http://www.agll.com), any LDS (Mormon) Family History Center (Family
History Library microfilm #0200164), or Interlibrary Loan. If the
original passenger manifest for this voyage does not survive, you should
find an abstract of it in the Quarterly Abstracts of Passenger Lists of
Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, National Archives Microfilm Publication
M272, roll 6, a copy of which you can also borrow through AGLL, any LDS
Family History Center (Family History Library microfilm #0200240), or
Interlibrary Loan.

The UHLAND was a 3-masted, square-rigged ship, built by Johann Lange, in
Vegesack-Grohn, for the Bremen shipowner Hermann Henrich Meier (H. H.
Meier & Co), later one of the founders of Norddeutscher Lloyd, and
launched on 23 September 1847. She was named after the famous poet Ludwig
Uhland, who attended the launching, and was intended for the Bremen-New
Orleans packet service. 413 Commerzlasten/938 tons register, 43,7 x 10,6
x 6,3 meters (length x beam x depth of hold); International Signal Code:
QBMS. She was at the time of her launching the largest German ship.
Masters: J"urgen Meyer (1847-1850), Johann W"achter (1850-1853),
Christian Lahusen (1853-1862), F. C. T. Soltenborn (1862-1868), Johann
H"oljes (1868-....), and B. H. Janssen. In 1879, she was sold to L. W.
Wendelin, of Christinestad, Finland, who changed her name to SUOMI. She
was abandoned at sea in 1889 [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. 212-213].

An oil painting of the launching of the UHLAND, by Carl Justus Harmen
Fedeler, is in the possession of the Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum,
Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1, D-27586 Bremerhaven, http://www.dsm.de, from whom
you should be able to obtain a high-quality full-color reproduction.
I am sending you, by separate post, two scans, in .JPG format, of this
painting, as well as a scan of a photograph of Capt. Johann W"achter,
taken in 1905, in front of his son's cigar store in Vegesack.

Michael Palmer
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Michael Palmer
Claremont, California

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