Donau, sailing from Hamburg, GER to NY.

This is an artist's drawing of what the ship, the Donau might have looked like in 1862. DONAU, Heydtmann, master, which arrived at New York on 16 May 1854, 36 days from Hamburg. This vessel, described in 1853 as a bark, and in 1854 and later as a ship, was built in Altona (now part of Hamburg, but then a port in the kingdom of Hannover) in 1853 by Dreyer for the Hamburg-Amerikanische Paketfahrt-Aktiengesellschaft (Hamburg American Line). 237 Commerzlasten (1 Commerzlast=2,806.266 kilograms), measurement "zwischen den Steven" 139.6 x 31 x 19.6 (length x width x depth of hold) Hamburg feet (1 Hamburg foot=.28657 meters). She sailed almost exclusively on the Hamburg-New York route, although she also sailed to Charleston, SC, in 1858/59 and 1859/60, to London in 1861, to Hull in 1861 and 1862, and to Philadelphia in 1865. In 1866, she was sold, after having been damaged at sea, to Hall, of Boston, and sailed to Port Louis, Mauritius, as the DRESDEN

[Walter Kresse, _Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien 1824-1888_, Teil 1, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum f"ur Hamburgische Geschichte, N.F., 5 (Hamburg: Museum fur Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969 ]. I know nothing of her later history, although she may be listed in _Lloyd's Register of North American Shipping_. There may be additional information on her, including a picture, in Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, _Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika-Linie_, Bd. 1: 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979). Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 27 July 1997]

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