>Would anyone have information or a website >to see a drawing of the ship OHIO 1881? I hope it is permissible for me to recycle a posting from almost five years ago. I have saved this message because it refers to his very valuable site for historical ships. (below) - Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Palmer" <mpalmer@netcom.com> To: <SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 4:00 PM Subject: [SWITZ] Emigration Vessel History Website >I have set up a website at > > http://www.geocities.com/mppraetorius > > for the histories of merchant (emigration) vessels, both sail and steam, > that I have compiled over the course of my research. My interests are > primarily American, British, and German emigration sailing vessels of the > 19th century, early U.S. ocean-going steamships, and German and > Continental ocean-going passenger steamships of the 19th and early 20th > centuries. The vessel histories presently online represent only a portion > of the histories I have compiled: I shall be adding the others as time > permits. (I have in particular histories of all German passenger liners in > service prior to World War I.) > > A note on pictures. Whenever possible I have included a pictorial > representation of the vessel in question. To conserve space on the server > these pictures are presented in small format, generally no more than 400 > pixels wide. In some cases I am able to provide a larger copy of a > picture. > If the legend to a picture concludes with the sentence "To request a > larger copy of this scan, click on the picture," click on the picture and > your web browser will automatically generate an email to me with an > appropriate subject line. This is an automated procedure (viz., I do not > read the messages generated by it), so please do not alter the subject > line > in any way or use the message generated by this procedure to communicate a > personal message to me. Please note also that I am providing these larger > scans to you for your personal use only. If you wish to publish a larger > scan or to use it on a website, please contact the holder of the original > drawing, watercolor, painting, photograph, or model (identified in the > legend to the scan on these pages) for permission to do so. > > Michael Palmer