Both Heinrich “Henry” Cordes (See Chapter: Henry Cordes Arrived in New Orleans) and the Henry Meier family (See Chapter: Heinrich Meier Family Arrived in New Orleans) were on the Bremen ship Uhland, when they made the crossing of the Atlantic from Bremerhaven to New Orleans in November 1867.

Ship Description/History

The Bremen ship UHLAND was built at Vegesack/Grohn by Johann Lange, for the Bremen shipowner Hermann Henrich Meier (later one of the founders of Norddeutscher Lloyd), and was launched on 23 September 1847. She was named after the famous poet Ludwig Uhland, and was intended for the Bremen-New Orleans packet service. 413 Commerzlasten / 938 tons register; 43,7 x 10,6 x 6,3 meters (length x beam x depth of hold); International Signal Code: QBMS. She was at the time of her launching the largest German merchant ship. Masters: Jürgen Meÿer (1847-1850), Johann Wächter (1850-1853), Christian Lahusen (1853-1862), F. C. T. Soltenborn (1862-1868), Johann Höljes (1868-….), and B. H. Janssen. In 1879, she was sold to L. W. Wendelin, of Christinestad, Finland, who changed her name to SUOMI. The SUOMI, exUHLAND, was abandoned at sea in 1889.
Source: Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), pp. 212-213, no. 194.

Source

Downloaded 19 Apr 2016 from Palmer List of Merchant Vessels, http://www.oocities.org/mppraetorius/com-uh.htm

Ship Picture

Detail of painting of the launching of the Bremen ship UHLAND at Vegesack, 23 September 1847. Oil painting by Carl Justus Harmen Fedeler, 1847. Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven. Source: Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), p. 213.

Source

Downloaded 19 Apr 2016 from Palmer List of Merchant Vessels, http://www.oocities.org/mppraetorius/com-uh.htm

Departures from Bremerhaven – 1860-1868

Source

Downloaded 10 April 2016 from Staats Archiv Bemen, Passagen des Schiffes “Uhland”:http://212.227.236.244/auswanderung/abfahrtsdaten/passagen.php?s=s&v=Uhland&lang=de

Transatlantic Crossing Time

Departure from Bremerhaven, Germany: 17 Aug 1867

Arrival in New Orleans, USA: 4 Nov 1867

Transatlantic Crossing Time: (14+30+17 = 61 days) – almost 9 weeks. A sailing vessel typically required 6 weeks of sailing but varied from less than 5 weeks to 8 weeks or more as reported in Statistics concerning the transatlantic crossing. This was an extra long transatlantic crossing time.