Relative Immigration
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Claus and Margaret (Cordes) Korte family arrived in New York aboard the SS Ohio.
Ship Description
| Ship Name | Ohio |
|---|---|
| Years in service | 1869-1894 |
| Funnels | 1 |
| Masts | 2 |
| Aliases | Amazzone (1894), Rio Santa Cruz (1897) |
| Shipping Line | North German Lloyd |
| Ship description | Built by Caird & Co., Greenock, Scotland. Tonnage: 2,394. Dimensions: 301′ x 39′. Single-screw, 10 knots. Inverted engines. Two masts and one funnel. Iron hull. |
| History | Maiden voyage: Bremen-Southampton-Baltimore, March 8, 1869. Re-engined with compounds by 1881. Sold to Argentine Government in 1894. Renamed: (a) Amazzone (1894), (b) Rio Santa Cruz (1897). Sister ship: Leipzig. |
Information Sources
Ancestry.com. Passenger Ships and Images[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Ship Picture
Photograph of the OHIO in the Neuer Hafen, Bremerhaven, about 1887. Source: Arnold Kludas, Die Geschichte der Deutschen Passagierschiffahrt, Bd. 1: Die Pionierjahre von 1850 bis 1890, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, 22 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1986), p. 171.
Information Source
SS OHIO, October 23, 2010. Prokosch… Who, Where, How, What, and Why? downloaded from https://markprokosch.com/ 29 Jun 2020.
Departures of the Vessel Ohio from Bremerhaven – 1881
| date | vessel’s name | Agency / shipping company | captain | destination | Number of passengers | Arrivals | Remarks | |||||||
| 21.05.1881 | Ohio | Nordd. Lloyd, Bremen | Meyer, G. | New York | 1292 | |||||||||
| 29.06.1881 | Ohio | Nordd. Lloyd, Bremen | Meyer, G. | New York | 821 | |||||||||
| 10.08.1881 | Ohio | Nordd. Lloyd, Bremen | Meyer, G. | New York | 782 | |||||||||
| 05.10.1881 | Ohio | Nordd. Lloyd, Bremen | Meyer, G. | New York | 1195 | |||||||||
| 23.11.1881 | Ohio | Nordd. Lloyd, Bremen | Meyer, G. | Baltimore | 956 |
Information Source
DIE MAUS. Departures of emigration passages. Downloaded 23 Jul 2018 from http://212.227.236.244/auswanderung/abfahrtsdaten/passagen.php?s=s&v=Ohio&lang=en