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Emigrant ship Voyages

  The Transatlantic Crossing:
 -  Chapter 1:   Early Norwegian Emigrants
 -  Chapter 2:   Steerage - Between Decks
 -  Chapter 3:   By sail - daily life
 -  Chapter 4:   Children of the ocean
 -  Chapter 5:   Sailing ship provisions
 -  Chapter 6:   Health and sickness
 -  Chapter 7:   From sail to steam
 -  Chapter 8:   By steamship across the ocean
 -  Chapter 9:   The giant express steamers
 
  Migration from Northern Europe to America via the Port of Hull, 1848-1914
  A voyage from Norway to America in 1911
  The gathering to Zion - Mormon emigration from Norway
  The LONG Crossing of the Hannah Parr - Background Essay
  Memories from a voyage on the Christiane in 1851
  Prospects from Hull
  Statistics concerning the transatlantic crossing
  Sanitary Condition of Emigrants arriving in the Port of Hull
  Accommodation for emigrants in Hull
  Conditions for emigrants on the voyage from Gothenburg to Hull
  Conditions for emigrants on the voyage from Christiania to Hull
  Cost of passage, Norway - America
  Concerning the comfort and protection of emigrants passing through Hull
  Alardus - German fever ship from Hamburg to Queensland
  THE SELVIG STORY
  AN IMMIGRATION JOURNEY TO AMERICA IN 1854
  Account from the 1865 voyage on the Galathea
  The Michel Rentz account of the 1868 Hannah Parr crossing
  Accounts in The Limerick Chronicle - The Norwegian ship, Hannah Parr 1868
  The Gulbran Olsen Berge account from the Hannah Parr crossing in 1868
  The Iver Iversen Ruud account of 1868 Hannah Parr crossing
  Chronology - Hannah Parr crossing 1868
  The Diary of an emigrant leaving Trondheim on the ship "Juno" in 1893
  AN EMIGRANT VOYAGE IN THE FIFTIES
  The story of a journey from Norway to Quebec in 1861, on the ship Maple Leaf
  PIONEER HARDSHIPS by N.J. JOHNSON
  2 accounts of the crossing on the Marie in 1864
  Hanna Jacobson Starks' account of the voyage on the Marie in 1864
 The crossing of the Maryland in 1869
  The Mads Knudsen Fauske account of the crossing on the Marie in 1864
  Coming Over on the ship "Norden" in 1864
  Ole Dahl's personal account of his voyage on the Nordlyset to America in 1859
  John O. Tansem's account of the voyage on the ship Olaf from Christiania to Quebec in 1867
  The Ocean Voyage (on the bark Præciosa) in 1861
  The Journey from Norway to America in 1867, on the ship Refondo
  From Drammen to Quebec on the Sjofna in 1852.
  Ole Løkensgård's account of the crossing on the Sjofna in 1857
  An Autobiography of an Early Settler - (voyage on the Sjofna 1853)
  A journey on the S/S Tasso from Christiansund to Hull in 1880
  A JOURNEY TO AMERICA IN THE FIFTIES (on the ship Tegner)
  The horrifying voyage on the Valkyrien from Bergen to Quebec in 1873
  A story about the crossing on the Victoria from Drammen to Quebec in 1861
  A burial at sea on board the S/S Oscar II in 1911
  A Thingvalla Line promotional pamphlet 1887
  THE ÆGIR PEOPLE
  The voyage of the Sirius - 1866
  FREE PASSAGE TO NORTH-AMERICA - On the S/S Manchester Shipper in 1902
  CASTLE GARDEN, NEW YORK
 OUTBRAKE OF CHOLERA AND QUARANTINE AT NEW YORK HARBOR 1892

Ship articles

  STHE RECORD RACE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
  White Star Liner Baltic Completes Maiden Voyage in 1904
  THE TALE OF THE UMBRIA, shaft breaking in mid-Atlantic, 1892
  MACHINERY OF ATLANTIC STEAMSHIPS
  Pictures from the S/S Dwinsk (ex. C. F. Tietgen)
  The Great Liners
  Nice to know - Things to know about ships

Hunting passenger lists & Genealogy

 Hunting Passenger Lists:
 -  Chapter 1:   Emigration Records - Sources
 -  Chapter 2:   Canadian Records (1865-1935)
 -  Chapter 3:   Searching the Canadian Immigration Records Database
 -  Chapter 4:   US arrivals - Customs Passenger Lists
 -  Chapter 5:   Port of New York Passenger Records
 -  Chapter 6:   Norwegian Emigration Records
 -  Chapter 7:   The British Board of Trade outbound passenger lists

 Those Norwegian names, tips for the "online" researcher
 
 Maritime inscription - registers of seamen

Great marine disasters & wrecks

  The S/S Atlantic of the White Star Line, disaster in 1873
  The collision between the Thingvalla and the Geiser - STORY OF THE SURVIVORS
  The Collision between the Thingvalla and the Geiser, Details of the disaster
 THE 31 NORWEGIANS ON THE "TITANIC"
  The SURVIVORS OF the S/S NORGE
  Disaster on Lake Erie in 1852
  The Sinking of the S/S Danmark
  Collision between the Thingvalla and the Geiser - newspaper excerpts
  A. B. Wilse's journey on the S/S Geiser in 1888
 The sinking of the Dominion Line steamship "Scotsman" in 1899
  The collision between the S/S Umbria and the S/S Iberia in 1888
  The marine disaster - collision between the Thingvalla and Geiser in 1888
  The Collision between the S/S Empress of Ireland and the S/S Storstad
  BURNING OF THE STEAMSHIP CITY OF MONTREAL ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN IN 1887
  Account of the collision between the S/S Europa and brig Charles Bartlett
  Recovering the dead, the cargo and valuables from the wreck of the S/S Atlantic
  The Rescue of the Passengers of the S/S Danmark
  The Sinking of the Norge
  The S/S Norge disaster - newspaper reports

Historic documents

  Passenger Act 1828
  Passenger Act 1819
  Agent's authorization
  Emigration contracts - passenger contracts

Norwegian culture

 Norwegian Traits - as seen by a traveler to Norway in 1876
  NORWEGIAN RURAL CUSTOMS AND COSTUMES
 Property Marks in Rural Norway - Bumerker

Norwegian Pioneers & Setlements

  NORSEWOOD - NEW ZEALAND
  The Sloopers - pioneers in Norwegian emigration
  Amund O. Eidsmoe's Story of His Own Life
  ANDERS MONSON HOGHAUG, A Norwegian pioneer

 
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