The Bremen bark PHILADELPHIA was built at Vegesack/Fähr by Hermann Friedrich Ulrichs, for the Bremen firm of Plate & Schöttler, and was launched on 30 June 1840. 130 Commerzlasten; 30 x 8,5 x 4,6 meters (length x beam x depth of hold).

As her name indicates, the PHILADELPHIA was intended for the Bremen-Philadelphia trade. From 1850 her principal owners were the Bremen firm of Plate & Co. Masters, in turn: Heinrich W. Greve, Heinrich Gärdes, Hieronymus Georg Hollmann and Hermann Sanders. In 1857, the PHILADELPHIA was sold foreign; her later history and ultimate fate are not known.

Source: Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), pp. 263-264, no. 3.