The steamship TRAVE was built for Norddeutscher Lloyd by Fairfield Co Ltd, Glasgow (yard #311), and was launched on 18 February 1886. 4,966 tons; 138,42 x 14,67 meters (length x breadth); straight stem, 2 funnels, 4 masts; steel construction, screw propulsion, 1 triple-expansion engine, service speed 17 to 17.5 knots; accommodation for 224 passengers in 1st class, 90 in 2nd class, and 660 in steerage; crew of 185.

5 June 1886, maiden voyage, Bremen - Southampton - New York. 21 June 1892, collided with the sailing ship FRED B. TAYLOR, which sank with the loss of 2 lives. June 1895, one of 4 guest ships supplied by Norddeutscher Lloyd for the opening of the new Kaiser Wilhelm Canal at Kiel. 1896/97, rebuilt by AG Vulcan, Stettin; 5,262 tons, masts reduced to 2, funnels lengthened, engine and boilers overhauled. 29 January 1901, last voyage, Bremen - Southampton - New York. 20 March 1901-23 April 1903, Genoa - Naples - New York. 1903-1906, laid up. 11 March 1906-26 October 1907, 9 roundtrip voyages, Bremen-New York. 1908, sold to Hamburg shipbreakers. 1909, scrapped.

Sources: Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails (2 vols.; Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994-c1995), vol. 1, p. 93, no. 61 (photograph, after rebuild of 1896/97); 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. 553. Also photograph, in her original form, in Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 327, courtesy of Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut.

The U.S. bark TRIESTE was built at New York by William H. Webb (hull #112), and was launched on 27 June 1857. 549 tons; 135 feet x 28 feet 11 inches x 12 feet 9 inches (length x beam x depth of hold).

The TRIESTE was built on speculation and was launched without a name. Webb appears to have had some difficulty selling her, since her certificate of registry was not issued until 12 November 1857. The purchaser was the New York firm of W. A. Sale & Co, who placed her in the Mediterranean trade, most of the westbound cargoes consisting of fresh fruit in season. During the Civil War, the TRIESTE turned to tramping, arriving under the command of Capt. Sewall at New York on 5 January 1863, from Amoy (Hsiamen, China) 12 September and Anjer (Java) 23 October 1862 (passed the Cape of Good Hope 21 November), with a cargo of tea. The TRIESTE, under the command of Capt. Swell, cleared New York on 26 February 1863 for Matanzas, Cuba, where she arrived on 9 March; she then proceeded to Havana and Remedios, which she reached on 29 March 1863. I have been unable to trace her movements after that date until her arrival at San Francisco on 9 July 1864, 66 days from Newcastle, New South Wales, and 19 days from Honolulu; under the command of Capt. Sewall she cleared San Francisco for Valparaiso on 5 October 1864, sailing on 10 October. I have no information on her later history or ultimate fate.

Source: Edwin L. Dunbaugh and William DuBarry Thomas, William H. Webb: Shipbuilder (Glen Cove, New York: Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, 1989), p. 213.