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31. Accommodation for emigrants in Hull ( - REPORTS received by the Board of Trade and the Local Government Board relating to the Transit of SCANDINAVIAN EMIGRANTS, &c)
Reports relating to the conveyance & transit of emigrants 1881 - 1882
32. Conditions for emigrants on the voyage from Christiania to Hull ( - REPORTS received by the Board of Trade and the Local Government Board relating to the Transit of SCANDINAVIAN EMIGRANTS, &c)
This is the first of 5 reports dealing with the conditions of Scandinavian emigrants traveling from Scandinavian ports on the Wilson Line ships, to the Port of Hull. This first report is written by Charles P Wilson, Principal Officer at the Marine Department, Board of Trade in England. It is a report after he made a voyage on the S/S Angelo from Christiania to Hull in 1881 to observe the arrangements made for the conveyance of the emigrants.
33. Cost of passage, Norway - America (2001 - Trond Austheim and Børge Solem )
A COLLECTION OF PRICE EXAMPLES
34. Memories from a voyage on the Christiane in 1851 ( - )
Excerpted from an account written in about 1905 by Ole Ellingsen Strand
35. Prospects from Hull (2002 - Nicholas J. Evans )
Many emigrants traveled via Hull on their way to America, they would have disembarked from their steam packet at the "Steam Packet Wharf". This landing stage was located within the Humber Dock Basin. This page shows a collection of prospects from the different places where the emigrants passed on their way.
36. Sanitary Condition of Emigrants arriving in the Port of Hull ( - REPORTS received by the Board of Trade and the Local Government Board relating to the Transit of SCANDINAVIAN EMIGRANTS)
This is the 5th of 5 reports dealing with the conditions of Scandinavian emigrants traveling from Scandinavian ports on the Wilson Line ships, to the Port of Hull. This 5th report is written by Hubert Airy, the Medical Officer in Hull. It is a report about the Sanitary Condition of Emigrants arriving in the Port of Hull
37. Statistics concerning the transatlantic crossing (16. april 2004 - Børge Solem & Trond Austheim)
How long did it take to cross the Atlantic by sail? What was the The average crossing time? How long did the longest voyage last? Find out more from our figures relating to data based on 589 voyages.
38. The Anchor Line and Allan Line agents, 1870 newspaper campaign (2002 - Børge Solem)
The cooperation between the competing companies was not always smooth. In 1870 there was quite a newspaper campaign between the agent of the Anchor Line and the Allan Line
39. Alardus - German fever ship from Hamburg to Queensland (March 2003 - Ian Gordon )
Ian Gordon of Perth, Western Australia, has compiled a document concerning extracts from the newspapers of the day in connection to the passage of the fever ship Alardus. The voyage is known to have been one of the longest of any ship sailing from Germany to Queensland, she departed from Hamburg in Germany on November 11th, and arrived in Melbourne on April 26th, after 6 months at sea.
40. Pictures from the S/S Dwinsk (ex. C. F. Tietgen) ( - Heinrich (Henry) Ioganowitsch Arnowitz / Edwin Arnowitz)
Snapshots taken by Heinrich (Henry) Ioganowitsch Arnowitz during 1917 on a convoy from Halifax to Great Britain.

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