Hi Cindy, I am responding to your email via the list. We don't have ship description and voyage history for every ship in our Fleets ... as people ask about individual ships, if a description and history is available, we add that to the website. Listers can probably come up with the description &c. but I don't know whether they will be able to come up with a picture. Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/ At 04:47 PM 2008-09-23 -0500, [email protected] wrote: >hi sue, i finally found some information about the 'dronning lovisa' ship >that sailed from gothenburg to copenhagen in april 1886. it came from >"the ships list" website: > >Dronning Lovisa built - 1861 >notes: ex- Drottning Lovisa, 1881 purchased from Sweden, and renamed >Dronning Lovisa, 1900 sold, renamed Gladys. >531 tons > >when i clicked on the ship descriptions, the dronning lovisa, nor >drottning lovisa, nor gladys appears anywhere in the descriptions. i'm >having a hard time locating any info other than the sentence above. > >i've also tried searching by fleet name. this tells more about the >company than the ship. > >The Fleets > >DFDS - Det forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S / (The United Steamship Company) > >Formed in Copenhagen in 1866 by the merger of several small Danish >companies as Det forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S (The United Steamship >Co.), the company became an important feeder service for emigrants >travelling via the UK. Numerous Scandinavian companies were taken over, >but one important company was the Thingvalla Line in 1898 which was >reformed as the Scandinavia-America Line. In 1903, French and Russian >subsidiary companies were formed and ships transferred to them. DFDS still >operates passenger services between the Baltic and Norway, Faroe Islands, >Iceland and the UK and freight routes to North and South America and the >Mediterranean. > >what i'm trying to find is a picture of the ship. any suggestions? > >thank you. > >cindy hall >[email protected]
Hi Cindy, There is a photo of the ship in the book DFDS by S. Thorsoe, ISBN 87-9800-30-03 which should be available on inter library loan. DRONNING LOVISA 531 gross tons, iron hulled passenger ship with accommodation for 70-1st, 12-2nd and 148-deck passengers.Built 1861 as DROTTNING LOVISA by Motala Warf, Norrkoping for Kongliga Generalpoststyrelsen, Stockholm and used on the Stockholm - Stettin service. 1867 taken over by Skargardsartilleriets Station, Stockholm renamed ACTIV. 1871 sold to Motala Mekaniska Verkstad, Norkopping reverted to DROTTNING LOVISA and fitted with new engine. 1878 owned by Motala Mekaniska Verkstads A/B, Stockholm. May 1881 sold to DFDS, Copenhagen and renamed DRONNING LOVISA and used mainly on Copenhagen - Stettin - Christiania service. 1886 service now mainly Stettin - Copenhagen - Gothenburg. 1900 sold to Blom & Olsen, Frederiksvaern renamed GLADYS, 1901 sold to Rinaldo Riperto, Genoa renamed MARIA STEFANIA. 31st Oct.1902 caught fire on voyage Naples - Genoa, towed to Porto Ferrario but sank in the roads. regards Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Swiggum" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:12 AM Subject: Re: [TSL] the ship "dronning lovisa" > > Hi Cindy, > > I am responding to your email via the list. We don't have ship > description > and voyage history for every ship in our Fleets ... as people ask about > individual ships, if a description and history is available, we add that > to > the website. Listers can probably come up with the description &c. but I > don't know whether they will be able to come up with a picture. > > Sue > -- > TheShipsList Website > http://www.theshipslist.com/ > > At 04:47 PM 2008-09-23 -0500, [email protected] wrote: >>hi sue, i finally found some information about the 'dronning lovisa' ship >>that sailed from gothenburg to copenhagen in april 1886. it came from >>"the ships list" website: >> >>Dronning Lovisa built - 1861 >>notes: ex- Drottning Lovisa, 1881 purchased from Sweden, and renamed >>Dronning Lovisa, 1900 sold, renamed Gladys. >>531 tons >> >>when i clicked on the ship descriptions, the dronning lovisa, nor >>drottning lovisa, nor gladys appears anywhere in the descriptions. i'm >>having a hard time locating any info other than the sentence above. >> >>i've also tried searching by fleet name. this tells more about the >>company than the ship. >> >>The Fleets >> >>DFDS - Det forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S / (The United Steamship Company) >> >>Formed in Copenhagen in 1866 by the merger of several small Danish >>companies as Det forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S (The United Steamship >>Co.), the company became an important feeder service for emigrants >>travelling via the UK. Numerous Scandinavian companies were taken over, >>but one important company was the Thingvalla Line in 1898 which was >>reformed as the Scandinavia-America Line. In 1903, French and Russian >>subsidiary companies were formed and ships transferred to them. DFDS still >>operates passenger services between the Baltic and Norway, Faroe Islands, >>Iceland and the UK and freight routes to North and South America and the >>Mediterranean. >> >>what i'm trying to find is a picture of the ship. any suggestions? >> >>thank you. >> >>cindy hall >>[email protected] > > > ------------------------------- > visit TheShipsList Website > http://www.theshipslist.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.7.0/1685 - Release Date: 22/09/2008 16:08