"Steve" <tierneys1@verizon.net> posted: I am trying to trace the movements of the SS Tripoli arrived in the Port of New York - 3 April 1866 - from Liverpool-Queenstown-New York 1866. <questions snipped> Here is a reference and the arrival report from the New York Times. NYT April 3, 1866 The extra Cunard steamer Tripoli left Liverpool on the 20th [of March] for this port [New York]. [An extra steamer was one extra to the regular scheduled sailings, usually to cope with an unexpectedly high demand.] NYT April 4, 1866 Arrived New York, April 3 Steamship Tripoli, [captain] Harrison, Liverpool March 20, and Queenstown 21st, with mdse. and 229 passengers to [agent] E. E. Cunard. April 2, 208 miles E. of Sandy Hook, passed Norwegian ship Goochen, for New York. April 3, off Fire Island, passed bark Harriet, for New York. It is unusual that the NYT did not mention that the Tripoli was British. While most Cunard names ended in -ia, the Tripoli was built for a Mediterranean service and named accordingly. The following steamship in the arrival list had a unusual crossing. Steamship St. Patrick (Br.,) [captain] Trocks Glasgow March 7, Londonderry 9th, Halifax 27th, St. John, N.B., 31st., in ballast, and 100 passengers to [agents] Williams and Guion. This was presumably the St. Patrick of the Allan Line. -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------