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From: "Ted Finch" <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] 1880 cargo ship from Norway
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 10:28:32 +0100
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Possibly this one?
http://www.norwayheritage.com/ships/index.asp

regards
Ted

----- Original Message -----
From: "J Olsen" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Mar] 1880 cargo ship from Norway


>I think there is online info for ships leaving Norway, late
> 19thC. Cant remember where I saw them. try googling for the University of
> Bergen, which hosts the census as well.
>
>
> Judy
>
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>>From: anne hanson <>
>>To:
>>Subject: [Mar] 1880 cargo ship from Norway
>>Date: 02, Sat Apr, 2005, 5:42 pm
>>
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I just joined this list and realize that we are not supposed to ask
>> questions about immigrants but ... Debbie Beavis said this is okay so
>> here goes:
>>
>> My great grandfather -- Harald Edmund Hanson -- emigrated from Norway
>> on April 2, 1880 and arrived in Richebucto New Brunswick, Canada 48
>> days later. He was one of only two passengers on the ship so I imagine
>> it was a cargo ship. He mentions eating dinner with the captain, first
>> and second mate, and helping the crew when they hit an iceberg and were
>> trapped in ice floes. I do not know where in Norway it left from --
>> only that the ship passed Shetland Island "3 days out" and this was the
>> last land they saw. I am looking for information on the name of the
>> ship and any other details available, particularly where in Norway it
>> left from.
>>
>> Anne Hanson
>>
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