Palmer List of Merchant Vessels


 

APOLLO (1841)

The U.S. ship APOLLO, 412 tons, was built at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1841. She appears to have been a general trader, with neither a set route nor a set schedule. She was registered at New York on 23 November 1848.

1843
Thomas Winsor, master, advertised as sailing in the Dispatch Line of coastal packets between Boston and Savannah.
1847
[John R.] Howe, master, advertised as sailing in the Union Line of coastal packets between New York and New Orleans.
Sources: Carl C. Cutler, Queens of the Western Ocean; The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, c1961), pp. 437 and 516; Forrest R. Holdcamper, comp., List of American-flag Merchant Vessels that received Certificates of Enrollment or Registry at the Port of New York, 1789-1867 (Record Groups 41 and 36), National Archives Publication 68-10, Special Lists 22 (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1968), p. 53.

Voyages:

  1. Ship APOLLO, [John R.] Howe, master, arrived at New York 19 September 1845, 37 days from Bordeaux, with brandy to order; 3 cabin and 1 steerage passenger (passenger manifest; National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, roll 60, list #783 for 1845).
  2. Ship APOLLO, [John R.] Howe, master, arrived at New York 18 July 1847, 51 days from Havre, with merchandise and 151 passengers, to Taylor & Merrill (passenger manifest dated 19 July 1847; National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, roll 68, list #521 for 1847).
  3. According to contemporary New York newspapers and the Allgemeine Auswanderungs-Zeitung, the ship APOLLO, [Peter] Protteau, master, arrived at New York on Sunday, 10 September 1848, from Bremen 22 July 1848, with merchandise and 160 steerage passengers, to W. Weisser, vessel to E. & T. Poppe. Microfilm copy of the passenger manifest for this voyage, dated 12 September 1848, on National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, roll 75 (Family History Library microfilm #0175425), list #1038 for 1848.

[15 Mar 1999]