Palmer List of Merchant Vessels

Norwegian bark NORA [1865] - See: COPERNICUS (1851)

NORD-AMERICA (1848)

Source: Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Bd. 1: 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979), p. 20.

The Hamburg bark NORD-AMERICA was built at Hamburg by the shipwright Johns for the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-A.G. (HAPAG, also known as the Hamburg-America Line), and launched on 9 October 1848 (Bielbrief [certificate of registry] 23 October 1848). 186 Commerzlasten / 419 tons; 130,4 x 34 x 18 Hamburg Füße (1 Hamburg Fuß = .28657 meter), length x beam x depth of hold; accommodation for 20 passengers in the cabin and 200 in steerage; crew of 16.

Masters: 1848-1851 - C. P. M. Rathje 1851-1856 - P. N. H. Peters 1856 - P. H. Haack 1856-1857 - J. A. L"uhrs 1857-1858 - F. A. G. Brolin

The NORD-AMERICA was the second vessel owned by HAPAG, who had originally intended to name her AMERIKA; however, there was already a vessel of this name registered at Hamburg. 10 November 1848, maiden voyage, Hamburg-New York. The NORD-AMERICA sailed exclusively between Hamburg and New York, making 24 voyages between 1848 and 1858. HAPAG began to convert her fleet to steam vessels in 1855, and in 1858 sold the NORD-AMERICA to J. Dybvadt & Sons, Christiana, Norway. I do not know her ultimate fate, but she disappears from the registers in 1868.
Source: Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Bd. 1: 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979), pp. 20-21 (picture); 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, 187.

Voyages:

Hamburg bark NORD-AMERICA, Brolin, master, arrived at New York on 9 December 1857 (Passenger manifest dated 10 December 1857), 33 days from Hamburg, with merchandise and 224 passengers consigned to E. Bech & Kunhardt (had four deaths and two births on board during the passage).

[20 May 1999]

NORDEN (1842)
ELISE [1850]

The Danish bark NORDEN was built at Nyborg, Denmark, in 1842.

On 14 January 1850, the NORDEN was purchased from Kruse, of Nyborg, by the Hamburg firm of C. Rübcke & Woellmer, who renamed her ELISE. Measurements (Hamburg): 129 Commerzlasten; 110 x 28,7 x 15,10 Hamburg Füße (1 Hamburg Fuß = .28657 meter), length x beam x depth of hold, zwischen den Steven.

Masters: 1850-1852 - H. H. D. N. I. Trautmann 1852-1853 - J. Jenner 1853-1855 - C. J. S. Bruhn 1855-1860 - A. Nielsen 1860-1862 - D. A. Hunäus Voyages: 1850 - New York (2 x) 1850/51 - New York 1851 - New York 1851/52 - New York 1852 - New York (2 x) 1852/53 - New York/Liverpool 1853 - New York 1853/54 - New York/Cardiff 1854 - New York (2 x) 1854/55 - New York 1855/56 - St. Uebes (Setubal)/Montevideo/intermediate ports/Amsterdam 1856 - Quebec/London 1856/57 - New York/La Guayra/Puerto Cabello/Altona 1857/58 - New York/London 1858 - New York 1858/59 - Rio de Janeiro/intermediat ports/Hartlepool 1859/60 - St. Thomas/Laguna d. T., Mexico 1860 - Laguna d. T./Altona 1860/61 - New York 1861 - Bristol ...

The ELISE ex NORDEN was sold in 1862. I do not have any information on her later history or ultimate fate.

Source: 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. 157.

Voyages:

Hamburg bark ELISE, Jenner, master, arrived at New York on 30 April 1852, 41 days from Hamburg, with 134 passengers; had 2 births and 1 death on the passage.

[09 Dec 1997]

Norwegian bark NORDSTJERNEN [1870] - See: DORETTE (1855)

NORMANDIE (1833)

The U.S. ship NORMANDIE was built at Hartford, Connecticut, by L. Smith, in 1833. 500 tons; 130 ft 6 in x 29 ft x 14 ft 6 in (length x beam x depth of hold); according to a contemporary account, her cabin was "in cream color, polished and ornamented with gold". From 1834 to 1837 she served in the Old (later: Union) Line of sailing packets between New York and Le Havre, during which period her average westward passage was 37 days (shortest passage, 26 days; longest passage, 48 days).

From 1837 onwards the NORMANDIE was a transient, sailing between New York and New Orleans, and New York and Liverpool; she last arrived at New York out of Newcastle, England, in September 1844. In December 1844 she went missing on a journey from Liverpool to New York.

Source: 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. 97, 213-214, 284-285.

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[VILLE DE NEW YORK (1882)]
NORMANDIE (1882)
LA NORMANDIE [1886]

Photograph of [LA] NORMANDIE, taken before 1894. Source: Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 166, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem. To request a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture.

The steamship NORMANDIE was built for the Compagnie G'en'erale Transatlantique (French Line) by Barrow Shipbuilding Co, Barrow. She was laid down as the VILLE DE NEW YORK, but was launched on 28 October 1882 as NORMANDIE. 6,283 tons; 139,99 x 14,99 meters / 459.3 x 49.2 feet (length x breadth); straight stem, 2 funnels, 4 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, compound engines (6 cylinders), service speed 16 knots; accommodation for 205 passengers in 1st class, 76 in 2nd class, and 1,000 in steerage.

5 May 1883, maiden voyage, Havre-New York. 1886, renamed LA NORMANDIE (first voyage as such, Havre-New York, 24 April). 1894, triple-expansion engines by CGT, St. Nazaire; masts reduced to two. 21 April 1894, first voyage, St. Nazaire - Havana - Vera Cruz. 23 June 1894, resumed Havre-New York service. 27 July 1901, last voyage, Havre-New York; subsequently St. Nazaire - Havana - Vera Cruz. 1908-11 September 1911, St. Nazaire-Panama. 1912, scrapped at Bo'ness,

Source: 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. 656.

Voyages:

French Line steamship NORMANDIE, Capt. Franguet, arrived at New York on 19 April 1885 (passenger manifest dated 20 April 1885), 8 days from Le Havre.

[07 Jul 1999]

NORTH AMERICA (1850)

The steamship NORTH AMERICA was built by Lawrence & Sneeden, New York, and launched on 14 September 1850. 1,440 20/95 tons; 260 feet 6 inches x 33 feet 9 inches x 20 feet 6 inches (length x beam x depth of hold); 2 decks, 4 masts, round stern, no head; wooden construction, side-wheel propulsion, engine by Morgan Iron Works, diameter of cylinder 5 feet, length of stroke 12 feet.

At the time of her launching the NORTH AMERICA was said to be intended for the San Francisco-Panama service, but as late as February 1851 she was owned by the Norwich & New London Steamboat Company, and between February and June 1851 she operated between New York and Chagres. She sailed from New York on 24 June 1851, arriving at San Francisco, via Panama, on 2 October. She ran for the Vanderbilt Independent Line between San Francisco and San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, and was wrecked on 27 February 1852, 30 miles south of Acapulco, northbound.

Source: John Haskell Kemble, The Panama Route, 1848-1869, University of California Publications in History, 29 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943), p. 237.

Voyages:

Steamship NORTH AMERICA, Capt. J. H. Blethen, arrived at San Francisco at 2 AM, 18 January 1852 (was off the Heads of San Francisco at 10 PM, 17 January, but was unable to enter the bay on account of dense fog), from San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, 5 January 1852 (12 days), the passengers a total of 26 days ("the quickest trip to date") from the East Coast. List of passengers printed in the Daily Alta California, p. 2e; reprinted in Louis J. Rasmussen, San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists, vol. 1 (Colma, California, 1965), pp. 120-122.

[21 Mar 1998]

NORTH STAR (1866)

The steamship NORTH STAR (Official No. 54,699) was built under Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey by Henderson, Coulborn & Co (later Lobnitz, Coulborn & Co), Renfrew, and was launched in March 1866. 419/617/515 tons (gross/net/under deck); 202.5 x 26.2 x 15.3 ft (length x breadth x depth of hold); 3 masts (schooner rigged); 1 deck, 5 bulkheads; poop 21 ft long, forecastle 30 ft long; iron construction; screw propulsion; original engines: compound inverted 2 cylinder, 38" - 33", generating 95 hp, by builders; replaced about 1875 by compound inverted 2 cylinder 27" & 47" - 33", generating 98 hp, by R. Napier & Sons, Glasgow. The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1866/67 through 1881/82 (the last to which I have immediate access) give the following additional information on the NORTH STAR:

Master: 1866/67-1867/68 - Ure 1867/68-1869/70 - J. Crombie 1869/70-1875/76 - Raison 1875/76-1879/80 - G. Tait 1879/80-1881/82 - Parker Owner: 1866/67-1867/68 - Seligmann & Co 1867/68-1874/75 - Seligmann 1875/76-1881/82 - Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co Port of Registry: 1866/67-1875/76 - London 1875/76-1881/82 - Leith Port of Survey: 1866/67-1867/68 - Clydeside 1867/68-1870/71 - London 1871/72-1878/79 - Clydeside 1879/80-1881/82 - Leith Destined Voyage (through 1873): 1866/67 - Norwich [crossed out] 1866/67-1867/68 - London 1867/68-1869/70 - Norway 1869/70-1870/71 - Baltic 1871/72-1873/74 - [not given]

The NORTH STAR was still in service for the Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co in 1881/82. For additional information on the NORTH STAR, check the surviving records for both Lobnitz & Co (the ultimate successors to Henderson, Coulborn & Co), and the Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co, both of which are now held by the Glasgow University Archives and Business Record Centre. The Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey under which the NORTH STAR was built is now held by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (see in particular National Maritime Museum Research Guide H6, Lloyds: Lloyd's Register Survey Reports).
[11 Feb 1999]