How long did it take to get to the USA?
GUYLOTO	I am ignorant about traveling by ships in the 1880's. What was the average time it would take to reach the US from Norway (including multiple port stops & weather). Is it safe to calculate in months? years? Thank you in advance for your help.
Jo Anne Sadler	Recommend you read the many informative articles on this site including Departures/Arrivals, etc.
jwiborg	Hi, emigrantships leaving Oslo around 1900, arrived in New York approx. 15 days later, with maybe only 1 stop in Copenhagen. Feeder ships who brought the emigrants over to Hull, England, was also very common, then train to Liverpool, and then boarded a new ship headed for America. You may also want to read this article; [url="http://www2.naha.stolaf.edu/publications/volume33/vol33_07.htm"]Concerning Emigration?[/url], posted in the Norwegian "Billed-Magazin", spring 1869. It's interesting reading, and decribes several routes to the west, and how to cross Lake Michigan. Quote: "THE LENGTH OF THE VOYAGE - MOST FAVORABLE TIME TO EMIGRATE. With favorable weather, the journey from Norway to some American port, for example, Quebec, can be covered in about five weeks. As an average we can estimate seven weeks, and the emigrants who cross the ocean that quickly have no cause for complaint. It has happened that emigrant vessels have been en route twelve or thirteen weeks, but such cases are unusual." Jan
Borge	Blue Riband of the North Atlantic in 1880: Steamship [url="http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=arizo"]Arizona[/url] record crossing Queenstown - New York in 7 days, 10 hours and 22 min. ( 2.800 nm ), see as an example: [url="http://www.norwayheritage.com/t_transatlantic.asp?month=07&year=1880"]Arrivals reported in Norwegian newspapers July 1880[/url] from the [url="http://www.norwayheritage.com/arrivals.asp"]Ship Arrivals[/url] database. Passengers who departed from from Christiania on March 11, 1882 went to Hull, crossed by train to Liverpool, departed from Liverpool on the S/S Arizona on March 18 and arrived to New York on March 27. (Feeder ships to Hull England 3-4 days, 1 day to cross by train from Hull to Liverpool). See also as an example the [url="http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_route.asp?ro=c62"]Thingvalla Line sailings Christiania - Christiansand - New York in 1882[/url]. You might find this interesting: [url="http://www.norwayheritage.com/ships/stats.htm"]Statistics and facts about the transatlantic crossing from Norway to America (1840 - 1874)[/url] [img]http://www.norwayheritage.com/images/Image96.gif[/img]
GUYLOTO	Thanks everyone, that should get me going!