Hi Ted, and John, and Don! Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Interesting point about photos (but perhaps what I have seen are 'photos' of postcards taken from paintings?) I thought that the 1844 one might be the right time frame and type of vessel. However, it says this one went to the Crimea in March 1854 - so it seems that it was not doing the Atlantic crossings when our ancestors came in the fall? Only one Atlantic crossing in 1856 from what I read on the website. This is part of my confusion about which ship it really was. (Even if it wasn't this particular ship, I'm sure that is what it must have looked like?) Joanne -----Original Messages-----From: Ted Finch [mailto:mariners-l@efinch90.fsnet.co.uk] Subject: Re: [TSL] The Cambria This was Cunard Line's CAMBRIA built 1844. Details at http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsC.html Picture at http://www.schiffspost.com/flotte_cambria.htm Regards, Ted >From John: CAMBRIA 1844 1423 gross tons, length 319ft x beam 35ft, clipper bows, one funnel, three masts, rigged for sail, wooden hull, side paddle wheels, speed 9 knots. Accommodation for 120-1st class passengers. Built by Robert Steele & Son, Greenock (engines by Robert Napier, Glasgow), launched for Cunard on 1.8.1844. Maiden voyage 4.1.1845 Liverpool - Halifax - Boston. 1.1.1848 first voyage Liverpool - Halifax - New York. Subsequent sailings to New York or Boston. 1853 mizzen (third) mast removed. 30.4.1853 last voyage Liverpool - Halifax - Boston. 31.12.1853 one voyage Havre - Halifax - New York - Liverpool. March 1854 became Crimea War transport. 29.3.1856 one voyage Liverpool - Halifax - Boston. 1856 chartered to European & Australasian Line and ran between Marseilles and Malta. 1860 sold to Italy, then to Sardinian Navy. 1875 scrapped. Remarks: Maiden voyage 04/01/1845 Liverpool to Halifax and Boston

Hi Joanne, I'm wondering if you are "on" to something. It seem to be a sailing vessel ship CAMBRIA of Bath, Maine, Captain E. Perry, for all these arrivals 1 1853 December 2 Cambria Liverpool, England 1298 tons 2 1854 September 14 Cambria Stockholm 1187 tons 3 1855 June 29 Cambria Liverpool, England 1187 tons 4 1856 August 23 Cambria Cronstadt 1291 tons 5 1857 July 20 Cambria Liverpool, England 1191 tons Ships Rigging http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/shipsrigging.htm Fully Rigged Ship http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ship.htm Sue -- At 09:34 AM 2006-09-29 -0700, Joanne Peterson wrote: >Hi Ted, and John, and Don! Thanks for your comments and suggestions. >Interesting point about photos (but perhaps what I have seen are >'photos' of postcards taken from paintings?) > >I thought that the 1844 one might be the right time frame and type of >vessel. However, it says this one went to the Crimea in March 1854 - so >it seems that it was not doing the Atlantic crossings when our ancestors >came in the fall? Only one Atlantic crossing in 1856 from what I read >on the website. This is part of my confusion about which ship it really >was. (Even if it wasn't this particular ship, I'm sure that is what it >must have looked like?) >Joanne