Immigrant Arrivals: A Guide To Published
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Albion, Robert Greenhalgh.
Square-riggers On Schedule: The New York Sailing Packets to
England, France, and the Cotton Ports. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1938. xii, 371 p., ill., facsims., plates.
LC call number: HE767.N5A7
LC control number: 38016737
Covers 1818 to 1858. Appendix: tabular data vessel specifications,
builders, years of service, speed of westbound passages, rates of
freight, cargoes, and biographical notes on masters of packets.
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Anuta, Michael J.
Ships of Our Ancestors. Menominee, Mich.: Ships
of Our Ancestors, Inc., 1983. Reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical
Pub. Co., 1993. viii, 380 p., ill.
Over 880 illustrations of ships.
LC call number: VM381.S8 1993 LH&G
LC control number: 93070622
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Baker, William A.
The Mayflower and Other Colonial Vessels.
Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1983. xii, 180 p., ill.,
plans, bibliography.
LC call number: VM383.M348B34 1983
LC control number: 83060472
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Bonsor, N.R.P.
North Atlantic Seaway: An Illustrated History of the Passenger
Services Linking the Old World with the New. Illus.
by J.H. Isherwood. 4 vols. Enl.and rev. ed. Newton Abbot [Engl.]:
David & Charles, 1975. Bibliographic references. Vols. 3-4 pub.
Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Pub., 1979.
LC call number: HE822.B7 1975
LC control number: 75316725
Discusses American, British, and European steamship lines,
1829-1957, with brief comments on each vessel. Approximately 200
illustrations. Vol. 5, pub. Jersey, Channel Islands by Brookside
Pub., containing a general index, nine appendices,and a bibliography,
not in LC.
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Cutler, Carl C.
Queens of the Western Ocean: The Story of America's Mail and
Passenger Sailing Lines. With a Foreword by Chester
W. Nimitz. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1961. xxi, 672 p., ill.,
plans, ports., bibliographic references, index.
LC call number: HE745.C8 MRR Alc
LC control number: 61011247
"Western Ocean" refers to the Atlantic Ocean. Appendix
I, "Sailing Lines Between the United States and Foreign Parts,"
listing vessels, tonnage, masters, and some remarks for the period
1817-1860. Appendix II, "Coastal Lines."
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Dunn, Laurence
Famous Liners of the Past, Belfast Built.
London: A. Coles [1964]. 238 p.,ill.
Descriptions arranged by steamship line; many are 20th-century vessels.
LC call number: HE565.G7D8
LC control number: 65079744
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Emmons, Frederick E.
American Passenger Ships: The Ocean Lines and Liners, 1873-1983.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1985. Illus. by the author.
184 p., plates., ill., bibliography.
LC call number: VM381.E46 1985 MRR Alc
LC control number: 83050652
Technical data on 392 ocean-going American flag ships
"of over 2,500 gross registered tons, built with iron or steel hulls,
and driven by screw propulsion," with historical background on the
steamship companies. The latter are divided into six geographical
areas: the North Atlantic; Pacific, Hawaii, and Around-the-World;
South America and Africa; Intercostal and Central America; East
Coast, Gulf and Caribbean; the West Coast and Alaska.
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Greenhill, Basil.
The Life and Death of the Merchant Sailing Ship 1815-1965.
London: H.M.S.O.,1980. 60 p., ill. At head of title: National Maritime
Museum.
LC call number: VK19.G73
LC control number: 81123981
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Haws, Duncan.
Merchant Fleets in Profile. Additional research
by Stephen Rabson. 3 vols. Cambridge, [Eng.]: P. Stephens, 1978-79.
LC call number: HE945.A2H38
LC control number: 79322836
Vol. 1, ships of the P & O, Orient, and Blue Anchor
lines. Vol. 2, ships of the Cunard, American Red Star, Inman, Leyland,
Dominion, Atlantic Transport, and White Star lines. Vol. 3, ships
of the Union, Castle and Union-Castle, Allan, and Canadian Pacific
lines.
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Heinberg, Aage.
Over Atlanten fra og til Denmark Gennem Tiderne.
Kobenhaven: J.D. Qvist & Komp, 1936. 371 p., ill., plates, ports.,
facsims.
LC call number: E184.S19H28
LC control number: 39013709
Information on many ships from Denmark to the U.S. with
photographs, names of masters, discussion of daily life on board.
Lists vessels of both the Thingvalla Line and the Scandinavian-American
Line, 1880-1935.
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Kludas, Arnold.
Deutsche Ozean-Passagierschiffe, 1850 bis 1865. [German
Passenger Liners, 1850 Until 1895.] Moers: Steiger,
1983. 144 p., ill., bibliography.
LC call number: VM381.K57 1983 LH&G
LC control number: 84164270
Approximately 120 illustrations of ships. For each vessel:
date, place, builder, gross tonnage, knots per hour, length, classes
of accommodations, type of engine (if steam), number of passengers
and crew, and a brief history summarized in English.
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Kludas, Arnold.
Great Passenger Ships of the World. Charles
Hodges, trans. 6 vols. Reprint, Wellingborough, Northants: P. Stephens,
1985-1986. Ill.
LC call number: VM381.K5813 1985 LH&G; MRR Alc
LC control number: 86164531
Chronologically arranged, covers the period 1858 to 1986.
Includes "all passenger ships to date of over 10,000 GRT [gross
registered tonnage], with all essential technical and historical
data [and] the appearance of the ship recorded in photographs."
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MacGregor, David R.
Fast Sailing Ships: Their Design and Construction, 1775-1875.
2nd ed. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1988.
319 p., ill., bibliography, pp. 283-89.
LC call number: VM144.M3 1988
LC control number: 87062528
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MacGregor, David R.
Merchant Sailing Ships, 1775-1815: Sovereignty of Sail.
Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1985. 224 p., ill., index,
bibliography.
LC call number: VK19.M28 1985
LC control number: 88061517
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MacGregor, David R.
Merchant Sailing Ships, 1815-1850: Supremacy of Sail.
Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1984. 191 p., ill., index.
LC call number: VM144.M313 1984
LC control number: 83046116
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MacGregor, David R.
Merchant Sailing Ships: 1850-1875: Heyday of Sail.
Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1984. 256 p., ill., bibliography,
p. 251, index.
LC call number: VM144.M314 1984
LC control number: 84061562
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MacGregor, David R.
Schooners in Four Centuries. Annapolis, Md.:
Naval Institute Press, 1982. 144 p., ill., bibliography, index.
LC call number: VM311.F7M33 1992
LC control number: 82073779
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Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship
Arrivals for the Years 1890 to 1930 at the Port of New York and
or the Years 1904 to 1926 at the Ports of New York, Philadelphia,
Boston and Baltimore. New York: Immigration Information
Bureau, Inc., 1931. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1979.
268 p.
LC call number: HE945.A2D5 1979 LH&G
LC control number: 78065163
The "arrivals of passenger steamships carefully compiled
by the calendar year and indexed alphabetically by Steamship Line,"
with ports of departure and arrival, and a list of shipping lines
that discontinued passenger service to U.S. ports by 1931.
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Passenger Ships Arriving in New York Harbor. Vol.
I (1820-1850). Edited by Bradley W. Steuart; illustrated
by Wayne Cooper. Bountiful, Utah, Precision Indexing, 1991. 352
p.
LC call number: VM381.P37 1981 LH&G
LC control number: 93246941
Includes the following information extracted from National
Archives microfilm publication M237: date of arrival, name of ship,
type of vessel, name of captain, port(s) of embarkation, three most
prevalent nationalities onboard, National Archives roll number,
and manifest number. Information is presented in two sections: a
chronological list by arrival date, and an alphabetical list by
ship name.
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Schauffelen, Otmar.
Great Sailing Ships: An Illustrated Catalogue and History
of 150 Extant Barks, Barkentines, Brigs,Brigantines, Frigates, Schooners,
and Other Large Sailing Vessels Built Since 1628.
Translated by Inge Moore with the co-operation of Barbara Webb.
New York: Praeger (1969). 278 p., Illus., bibliography, index.
LC call number: VM145.S2913 MRR Alc
LC control number: 75079074
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Smith, Eugene Waldo.
Passenger Ships of the World, Past and Present.
2d ed. Boston: G.H. Dean, 1978. 1097 p., ill.
LC call number: HE565 .A3S48 1978 LH&G
LC control number: 79101044
Part I, alphabetical list and description of trans-Atlantic
passenger lines. Part II, trans-Pacific passenger ships. Part III,
Latin American passenger ships. Part IV, passenger ships to Africa
and the eastern oceans. Part V, California-Hawaiian passenger ships.
Part VI, passenger lines with their fleet lists. Part VII, photographs.
Part VIII, supplement with ships not listed in the first edition.
Part IX, passenger vessels sold for scrap since 1960. Appendices
include the world's longest ships and the distances between ports
in nautical miles.
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