The ship Danzig departed from Drammen on May 14th 1861, and arrived at the quarantine station at Grosse île on July 14th. 4 passengers were sick, and the ship was detained for 2 days in quarantine. She was released on July 16th after cleansing, and proceeded to Quebec where she arrived on July 18th. The ship sailed in ballast, and was carrying 1 cabin and 390 steerage passengers, there were 8 deaths on the voyage. She was mastered by Captain D. Schmidt, and had a crew of 20.

Carl Beals have sent us a voyage account from a journal written by his great grandmother, Ingeborj Belle Olson. She sailed with her parents Engebret/Ingebret Olsen (Oct 18, 1829-Nov 20, 1903) and mother Anna Anderson Olson (April 17, 1832 - Sept 5, 1913) on the Danzig in 1861. The account of the trip was written in 1933.

"I was born in Numedal, Norway November 20, 1855. My parents are Ingebret Olson and wife Annie. We left for America in 1860!! [Should be 1861] in the middle of May on a sail ship named Danzig, which carried four hundred passengers. Our voyage across the Atlantic ocean was a hard one because when we had been on the Atlantic about a month it was discovered that we had run short of water, so they started to close in on the water with a pint a day for each individual. This period lasted about two weeks. Then God sent a heavy rain to help us out of our great distress. Every kind of vessels we could find on the ship was set out to catch the rain so all individuals were saved from thirsting to death. After this the weather turned favorable so we could sail faster. There also was lots of sickness besides ten deaths on this trip from Norway to America. The people who died on the ship were buried in the ocean, and among them was a little sister of mine. Being only six years old I remember that plainly when I saw the waves swallowing that little Jorgiona, my dear sister. Our ocean voyage lasted eleven weeks. When we reached America we heard about the Civil War, the slavery and everybody was warning all parents to take good care of their children or they probably would be stolen and taken to the slave auction to be sold. In these days it was not a very easy task to get into the country. We were shipped from Quebec on freight steamers up the lakes. We were also shipped on stock trains which made traveling very slow. People were coming in with large buckets of some milk which they sold at two cents a pint - but, oh my, it tasted delicious. Our destination was Luther Rock Country, Wisconsin, where we had relatives, provisions and labor were cheap...."

Newspaper notice from the newspaper "Correspondenten", May 18th 1861: The ship Danzig, burthen 344 Commercial lasts, departed from here today, mastered by Capt Smith for Quebec carrying 399 emigrants, mostly mountain people. The passengers were all good spirited, and the last evening before the departure they had a dance on board, and the Hallingdance and Springerdance had been quite jolly...

Because the National Archives of Canada [NAC] did not start the archiving of passenger lists before 1865, and the Norwegian emigration records did not start before 1867, there is no surviving passenger list for this voyage in any of those archives. Timeline to records.