Palmer List of Merchant Vessels

 

DE VROW DOROTHEA [1787]

The Philadelphia newspaper Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, No. 2716 (19 October 1787), p 3a, lists among the vessels entered inwards between 13 and 18 October 1787:

Ship De Vrow Dorothea, Severus Dalstet[, master], from Rotterdam

The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, No. 2713 (16 October 1787), p. 3b, carries the following advertisement, dated 15 October 1787:

GERMAN PASSENGERS,

     Just arrived from Rotterdam, after a nine weeks passage, in the ship Dorothea, Captain Severus Dalstet, now lying in the river Delaware, above Vine-street: all young, healthy persons and, a few families excepted, single people: among whom are farmers, tanners, shoemakers, coopers, carpenters, joiners, millers, bakers, smiths, &.
     The freight of the above redemptioners may be known on board said ship, or at E. Dutilh & Co's, in Water-street, between Market and Chesnut-streets.

Provided the manuscript is complete, there should be a record of the redemptioners' contracts in "Book A of Redemptioners, 1785-1804", now in the collections of the

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
1300 Locust St
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5699

There may also be a copy of the contract between Capt. Dalstet and his passengers for the voyage to Philadelphia (which may include information on the vessel as well) among the notarial records in the

Gemeentearchief Rotterdam
Postbus 71
NL-3000 AB Rotterdam

DE VROW DOROTHEA was a Dutch ship, and it is therefore very unlikely that she appears in Lloyd's Register, which survives for 1764 (updated in manuscript to 1766), 1775-1784, 1786-1787, and 1789-1802, etc (there is also a volume for 1768, updated in manuscript to 1771, but this volume is incomplete, and the surviving portion lists only those vessels with names beginning with the letters "M" through "Z"). These volumes were reprinted in both book form and microfilm in the late 1960's, and copies of these reprints are widely available in most large university research libraries.

You should be able to determine the tonnage of DE VROW DOROTHEA - and possibly her owner - from the microfilmed transcriptions of the the following records, Pennsylvania State Archives, RG-13, Records Of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission:

  1. RG-13.108.133: Minutes of the Port Wardens of Philadelphia, 1766-1880(6 microfilm rolls); or
  2. RG-13.108.130: Arrivals and Clearances of Vessels at the Port of Philadelphia, 1783-1880 (2 microfilm rolls).

These transcripts were made between 1937 and 1941 under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), as part of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission's Philadelphia Maritime Statistics Project. The microfilms are available at a number of institutions in Pennsylvania, including at the Pennsylvania State Library in Harrisburg and, in Philadelphia, at the Free Library, the Philadelphia City Archives, and at the Independence Seaport Museum Library.

[28 May 1999]

DELHI (1857)

The British brig DELHI (Official No. 38059) was built in Nova Scotia in 1857. 305 or 306 tons; 117 x 26.8 x 14.5 ft (length x beam x depth of hold). The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1859/60 through 1865/66 (the last in which the vessel's name appears) give the following additional information:

     Master:            F. G. Cook
     Owner:             Stoneman
     Port of Registry:  Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
     Port of Survey:    St. John
     Destined Voyage:   Ireland

I have no information on this vessel's later history or ultimate fate.

Additional Source: Canadian Ship Information Database, No. 38059, quoting National Archives of Canada, RG 42, Vol. 1304 (original Vol. 93 = microfilm reel C-2447), page 83.

[24 Oct 1999]

DEUCALION (1836)

The U.S. ship DEUCALION, tonnage given variously as 509 or 513, was built at Boston by Thatcher Magoun, in 1836, for his firm of Boston ship owners and operators, T. Magoon & Son:

1837
- Ship Deucalion, 513 tons, A. Winsor, master, advertised as sailing in the Regular Line of Boston-New Orleans packets.
1840
- Ship Deucalion, 513 tons, Howes, master, advertised as sailing in the Dispatch Line of Boston-New Orleans packets.
1841
- Ship Deucalion, 513 tons, Howes, master, advertised as sailing in Allen's Packet Line, between Boston and Mobile.
1847
- Ship Deucalion, 513 tons, Baker, master, advertised as sailing in the Dispatch Line of Boston-New Orleans packets.
1849
- Oliver G. Lane, master.
Sources: William Armstrong Fairburn, Merchant Sail (Center Lovell, Maine: Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, [1945-55]), V.2900; 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. 440, 445, 451, 452.

Voyages:

  1. Ship DEUCALION, Allen, master, arrived at New Orleans on Sunday, 7 December 1845, 40 days from Le Havre; she cleared on 16 January 1846 for Boston [New Orleans Daily Picayune, 9 December 1845 and 18 January 1846].

[17 Jun 1997]

 

DEUTSCHLAND (1848)

Model of the DEUTSCHLAND. HAPAG-Lloyd AG, Hamburg. Source: Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Bd. 1: 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979), S. 20. To request a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture.

The Hamburg ship DEUTSCHLAND, the first vessel owned by the Hamburg-Amerikanische Paketfahrt-Aktiengesellschaft (HAPAG, Hamburg-America Line), was built at Hamburg by v. Somm, and launched on 11 October 1848. 239 Commerzlasten / 538 tons; 141,4 x 33,8 x 19,3 Hamburg Fuß (1 Hamburg Fuß; = .28657 meter), length x beam x depth of hold; 20 passengers in 1st class, 200 passengers in steerage (Zwischendeck); crew of 17.

Bielbrief [certificate of registry] 13 October 1848. 15 October 1848, maiden voyage, Hamburg-New York. 22 April 1849, registered under the name HERMANN to Capt. Herr, under the Russian flag, in St. Petersburg, to escape the Danish naval blockade of the Elbe. 6 March 1851, re-registered at Hamburg to HAPAG under her original name DEUTSCHLAND.

Masters:
     1848-1853 - J. H. Hanker
     1851-1852 - G. H. A. Moll
     1853-1854 - P. H. Haack
     1854-1856 - P. Popp
     1856-1857 - J. E. Meier

Until 1856, the DEUTSCHLAND sailed exclusively in HAPAG's passenger and freight service between Hamburg and New York; she was then transferred to freight service, wherever HAPAG needed her. On 2 April 1857, bound from Cardiff to New York with a cargo of coal and railroad rails (Eisenbahnschiene), she sank in the Atlantic, at lat 47 N, lon 40 W.

Sources: Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Bd. 1: 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979), S. 20 (photograph of model); Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5. (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), Bd. 1, S. 187.

Voyages:

  1. Hamburg ship DEUTSCHLAND, Capt. J. H. Hanker, arrived at New York on 23 September 1852, 36 days from Hamburg, with 259 passengers; there had been 4 deaths among the passengers during the voyage.
  2. Hamburg ship DEUTSCHLAND, Capt. Popp, arrived at New York on 22 June 1856, 46 days from Hamburg, with merchandise and 315 passengers. Had 6 deaths and 4 births during the passage.

[19 Jun 1999]

DEUTSCHLAND (1858)

The Hamburg ship DEUTSCHLAND, the second vessel of this name owned by the Hamburg-Amerikanische Paketfahrt-Aktiengesellschaft (HAPAG, Hamburg-America Line), was built at Hamburg by Reiherstiegwerft (yard #36), and launched on 8 November 1858. 804 tons; 56,13 x 10,17 x 6,27 meters (length x beam x depth of hold); iron construction; accommodation for 10 passengers in 1st class, 78 in 2nd class, and 288 in steerage; crew of 20.

11 November 1858, delivered to the Hamburg-America Line. 21 November 1858, maiden voyage, Hamburg-New York. 16 April 1868, sold to C. Woermann, Hamburg.

Masters:
     1858-1860 - J. E. Meier
     1860-1862 - E. Wesselhöft
     1862-1867 - F. G. Hensen
     1868-1874 - J. H. M. C. Seemann
     1874-1880 - F. A. J. Kühn
     1880-1883 - R. Kort
     1884-1887 - E. Haye

Voyages:
     1858/59   - New Orleans
     1859/60   - New York/Bremerhaven
     1860      - New York
     1860/62   - New York/intermediate ports/Rotterdam
     1862/63   - New York/intermediate ports/Antwerp
     1863      - New York
     1863/64   - New York/intermediate ports/New York
     1864      - New York
     1864/65   - New York/Bremerhaven
     1865      - New York (2 x)
     1865/66   - New York
     1866      - New York
     1866/67   - New York
     1867/68   - laid up in Hamburg 14 months
     1868/69   - England/intermediate ports/Akyab/Rangoon
     1869/70   - Rangoon
     1870/71   - Rangoon
     1871/72   - Rangoon
     1872/73   - Cardiff/Rangoon
     1873/74   - Rangoon
     1874/75   - Cardiff/intermediate ports/Bremerhaven
     1875/76   - Rangoon
     1876/77   - Rangoon
     1877/78   - Rangoon
     1878/79   - Rangoon
     1879/80   - Rangoon
     1880/83   - Rangoon/intermediate ports/Bassein
     1883/84   - Rangoon
     1884/85   - Cardiff/Bassein
     1885/87   - Cardiff/intermediate ports/Rangoon

1887, sold to J. C. Pflüger & Co, Bremen. 1889, sold to J. D. Ahlers, Elsfleth. 1890, sold to J. J. Wallis & Sohn, Barth. 1896, scrapped.

Sources: Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5. (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol. 1, p. 190, and vol. 2, p. 301; Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Bd. 1: 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979), p. 22.

Voyages:

  1. Hamburg ship DEUTSCHLAND, Capt. Hensen, arrived at New York on 1 November 1863, from Hamburg 5 October, with merchandise and 493 passengers, to Kunhardt & Co. "Had 5 deaths (3 adults and 2 children) and 3 births."

[15 Jul 1999]

 

DEUTSCHLAND (1866)

Photograph of the DEUTSCHLAND. Source: Arnold Kludas, Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd, Bd. 1: 1857 bis 1919 (Herford: Koehler, c1991), p. 13. To request a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture.

The steamship DEUTSCHLAND was built for Norddeutscher Lloyd by Caird & Co (yard #132), Greenock, Scotland, and was launched on 29 May 1866. 2,947 tons; 99,06 x 12,19 meters/325 x 40 ft (length x breadth); clipper bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, single inverted engine (1800 psi), service speed 11 knots; accommodation for 60 passengers in 1st class, 120 in 2nd class, and 700 in steerage; crew of 105.

14 October 1866, maiden voyage, Bremen - Southampton - New York. 1869, king Wilhelm of Prussia, Bismarck, Field Marshal v. Moltke and Minister v. Roon, after all of whom later ships were named, breakfasted on board the DEUTSCHLAND in Bremerhaven. 18 January 1874, bound from Bremen and Southampton for New York, lost all propeller blades in lat 46 30 N, lon 41 17 W; towed to Southampton (arrived 27 January) by steamship BRAUNSCHWEIG; 8 February, resumed voyage to New York. 1874, given compound engine: 1500 hp, service speed 13 knots. 6 December 1875, bound from Bremen for Southampton and New York, in heavy storm and fog, driven off course by strong currents and stranded at 5 AM off Kentish Knock, in the estuary of the River Thames. Because of the severity of the storm, it was 24 hours before shore stations became aware of the wreck, and it took another 6 hours before the British paddle-wheel tug LIVERPOOL reached the site and rescued the 173 survivors; 157 others, including the captain, froze to death or drowned when the deck was flooded during high tide.

Sources: Arnold Kludas, Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd, Bd. 1: 1857 bis 1919 (Herford: Koehler, c1991), pp. 12-13 (photograph); Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994), pp. 19, no. 14 (photograph), and 21-22; 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. 545. The Focke-Museum, Bremen, also has pictorial information on the wreck of the DEUTSCHLAND.

Voyages:

  1. Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship DEUTSCHLAND, Capt. Wessels, arrived at New York on 9 May 1868, from Bremerhaven 25 April, and Southampton 2:24 PM 28 April, with merchandise and 761 passengers. "Had heavy westerly winds the entire passage, with some fog."
  2. Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship DEUTSCHLAND, Capt. Brickenstein, arrived at New York at 10:25 PM on 24 January 1869 (passenger manifest dated 25 January 1869), from Bremen 10 January, and Southampton 12 January, with merchandise and 427 passengers. "Had strong westerly gales the entire passage; Jan 18, had a hurricane, which lasted 8 hours."

[16 Jun 1999]

DEVONSHIRE (1843)

The U.S. ship DEVONSHIRE was built at Bath, Maine, by Johnson Rideout in 1843. 745 tons; 148 feet x 33 feet 3 inches x 16 feet 7 1/2 inches (length x beam x depth of hold). The DEVONSHIRE was registered at New York on 7 July 1845.

1846 - 778 tons, W. T. Thompson, master, advertised as sailing in the Merchants' Line of sailing packets between New York and New Orleans.
1847 - 778 tons, W. T. Thompson, master, advertised as sailing in the Black Star Line of sailing packets between New York and Liverpool.
1848 - 740 tons, Charles E. Ranlett, master, advertised as sailing in the New [Dispatch] Line of sailing packets between Boston and New Orleans.
1850 - 745 tons, W. Strickland, master, advertised as sailing in the Eagle Line of sailing packets between New York and New Orleans.

I have no information on this vessel's later history or ultimate fate.

Sources: William Armstrong Fairburn, Merchant Sail (Center Lovell, Maine: Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, {1945-55]), vol. 5, p. 3195; 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. 173; 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. 382, 455, 507, 518.

Voyages:

  1. Ship DEVONSHIRE, Thompson, master, arived at New York on 30 April 1845 (passenger manifest dated 1 May), from Liverpool 40 days, with merchandise, to order; 298 steerage passengers. "The D[EVONSHIRE] has experienced severe weather on the passage."
  2. Ship DEVONSHIRE, Thompson, master, arrived at New York on 9 April 1846 (passenger manifest dated 10 April), from Liverpool 3 (New York Tribune) / 5 (New York Evening Post), with merchandise and 4 cabin and 294 steerage passengers, to S. Thompson. "The D[EVONSHIRE] came out the north channel, and has had very sever weather, sprung the foremast, lost sails, &."
  3. Ship DEVONSHIRE, Thompson, master, arrived at New York on 5 November 1846 (passenger manifest dated 6 November), from Liverpool 43 days, with merchandise, to the master; 6 cabin and 300 steerage passengers.
  4. Ship DEVONSHIRE, Strickland, master, arrived at New York on 9 September 1849 (passenger manifest dated 10 September), from Liverpool 34 days, with merchandise and 314 passengers, to Martin Brown. "Sailed in co[mpany] with ship DUBLIN, for New Orleans, and saw her again the 11th August; same time, saw bark SAVANNAH for Savannah."

[27 Mar 2001]

 

DEVONSHIRE (1848)

[Right] Lithograph in colours by Thomas Goldsworth Dutton, artist and engraver, and Day & Son, printers, June 1848. MacPherson Collection, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, PAH0610 (Museum negative #X828). Source: Frank C. Bowen, The Golden Age of Sail; Indiamen, Packets and Clipper Ships; with illustrations from contemporary engravings and paintings in the MacPherson Collection (London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1925), plate 31. To request a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture. To obtain a full-color reproduction of this lithograph, contact the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, directly.
[Left] Engraving. Illustrated London News. Source: David R. Macgregor, Merchant Sailing Ships, 1815-1850: Supremacy of Sail (London: Conway Maritime Press, 1984), p. 166, fig. 189. To request a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture.

The U.S. ship DEVONSHIRE was built at New York by Jacob A. Westervelt & William Mackey for the Black X Line of sailing packets between New York and London, and was launched in 1848 (registered at the port of New York on 4 April 1848). 1,150 tons; 173 feet 6 inches x 38 feet x 21 feet 10 inches (length x beam x depth of hold).

The DEVONSHIRE sailed in the Black X Line between New York and London until late 1861, when she put into Bermuda damaged by a gale; she was sold there to British interests. In 1866, she was registered at Dublin to Joseph Kelley; soon afterwards she was sold to James Martin, also of Dublin. She was broken up in the mid-1870's. During her service with the Black X Line, the DEVONSHIRE's westbound passages averaged 30 days, her shortest passage being 19 days, her longest 41 days; her average and fastest passages were the second fastest in the line.

Sources: Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule; The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), pp. 282-283; 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. 173; Frank C. Bowen, The Golden Age of Sail; Indiamen, Packets and Clipper Ships; with illustrations from contemporary engravings and paintings in the MacPherson Collection (London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1925), p. 27, no. 31.

Voyages:

  1. Packet ship DEVONSHIRE, [Henry R.] Hovey, master, arrived at New York on 24 July 1849, from London and Portsmouth 17 June, to John Griswold. Merchandise and 49 cabin and 300 steerage passengers, all in good health. "12th July, lat 45 30, lon 51 8, supplied brig PHOEBUS, of Newport, (Wales) - loaded with railroad iron, bound to Bath - with bread. 25th June, lat 53 30, lon 18 38, saw a steamer bound west. 7th July, 3 P.M., lat 48, lon 38, saw a steamer bound east. 11th July, 6 P.M., lat 47, lon 48 30, saw a steamer bound east."

[27 Dec 1999*]

DEVONSHIRE (1848)

The British ship DEVONSHIRE was built at London in 1848. 703/831 tons (old/new measurement); 156.7 x 32.6 x 22.6 feet (length x beam x depth of hold; 1863). The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1849/50-1873/74 give the following additional information: 

Rig:
     1849/50-1868/69 - ship
     1868/69-1873/74 - bark

Master:
     1849/50-1854/55 - C. Consitt
     1855/56-1856/57 - W. Pixley
     1857/58-1862/63 - Steer
     1862/63-1867/68 - H. Holt
     1867/68-1873/74 - Featherstonhalgh

Owner:
     1849/50-1865/66 - Wigram
     1866/67         - Wigram [crossed out]
     1867/68-1869/70 - Austin & Co
     1870/71-1873/74 - Austin & Co [crossed out]

Port of Registry:
     1849/50-1869/70 - London
     1870/71-1873/74 - London [crossed out]

Port of Survey:
     1849/50-1868/69 - London
     1868/69-1873/74 - Shields

Destined Voyage:
     1849/50-1854/55 - Madras
     1855/56-1862/63 - India
     1862/63-1864/65 - New Zealand
     1864/65-1865/66 - India
     1866/67         - India [crossed out]
     1867/68-1868/69 - Ceylon
     1868/69-1873/74 - India

The DEVONSHIRE last appears in Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1873/74. However, she was last classed in March 1869, and she may have been lost, broken up, or sold foreign as early as that year.

[25 Mar 2001]

DEVONSHIRE (1860)

The British ship DEVONSHIRE was built according to Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey at Quebec by Henry Dinning, and was launched in July 1860. 858 tons; 162 x 35 x 21.3 feet (length x beam x depth of hold; 1863). The DEVONSHIRE was sold at Liverpool on 2 October 1860. The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1861/62-1870/71 give the following additional information: 

Master:  J. Calhoun

Owner:  Gibson & Co

Port of Registry:  Liverpool

Port of Survey:
     1861/62         - Liverpool
     1861/62-1864/65 - Clydeside
     1864/65-1870/71 - Liverpool

Destined Voyage:
     1861/62         - North America
     1861/62-1864/65 - South America
     1864/65-1867/68 - Australia
     1867/68-1870/71 - China

On 5 June 1870, the DEVONSHIRE, bound from Liverpool for Quebec, stranded in the fog on the Southeast side of St. Paul Island, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Sources: Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1861/62-1870/71; Canadian Ship Information Database, No. 36637, quoting National Archives of Canada, RG 42 Vol. 1480 (original Vol. 267 = microfilm reel C-2065), page 61, and Eileen Reid Marcil, The Charley-Man; a history of wooden shipbuilding at Quebec, 1763-1893 (Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press, 1993); Northern Maritime Research, Northern Shipwrecks Database (CD; Bedford, Nova Scotia: c1997), #12136. The original Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey report is held by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; microfilm copy, National Archives of Canada, microfilm reel A-436, Survey 404.

[25 Mar 2001]

British ship DEVONSHIRE [c.1861] - See: STEPHEN BALDWIN (1840)

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