An ancestor traveled from Hamburg to New Orleans on the Bark 'Miles' arriving in Galveston on June 5, 1855. Another document that I have says the ship departed Hamburg on 16-4-55 which would make the transit time about 7 weeks. A family document lists the time as 16 weeks. Anyone have any idea about this as I tend to agree with the two documents? Also, anyone have a site that would describe conditions on a ship such as this which carried 126 passengers? Frank Jurenka