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BurdenBuiltShipowner or operator Dimensions
211½ kl  J. & E. M. Flood, Skien, Norway  
 YearRemarks
 1857 Captain Niels M. Møller  from Porsgrunn Apr. 22 to Quebec June 4   
 1857 leaving Porsgrund together with Sjofna with 150 emigrants, most Telemark farmers but some from Gjerpen, Slemdal and some families from Skien. No passengers from Porsgrund. Atlantic Journey ID 10210
The information listed above is not the complete record of the ship. The information was collected from a multitude of sources, and new information will be added as it emerges
The ship Edvina was owned by J. & E. M. Flood in Porsgrunn. She had a burden of 203,5 Norwegian Commercial lasts. In 1857 the Edvina departed from Porsgrunn about Apr. 22nd and arrived at Quebec June 4th, with a load of emigrants. The voyage was announced in the newspapers "Correspondenten" in Skien and "Morgenbladet" in Christiania. Master was N. Møller. In a letter to "Correspondenten" from Captain Møller in Quebec, he tells that the crossing had taken 36 days. The ship had to stay for some days in quarantine due to an outbreak of measles. A small child died short after the arrival from the disease. On June 5th in the afternoon the passengers had proceeded from Quebec on a steamship.

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.

Newspaper notice from 1857
Newspaper notice from
"Correspondenten", July 11th 1857

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