On 05/03/2000 "ADH" <hedgecoy@cwcom.net> posted (edited): >> I have a copy of a ticket purchased on the 25th May 1871. This was for 2 and 1/2 passengers from London to New York on the SS Constantine. Could SKS please tell me who owned the ship? The passengers ended up in Michigan, would they have got there by train or by boat, any ideas? Thanks Adrian >> Sue Swiggum replied: >> The CONSTANTINE seems to be a "ship-rigged" sailing ship, not a steamship, therefore not "SS." On TheShipsList website we have the 1871 annual report for New York. http://www.theshipslist.com/Forms/reportNY1871.html This lists all the steamships which were sailing transatlantic, to New York. In another table there is a list of ALL ships on which smallpox or sickness broke out, with their NY arrival date. The CONSTANTINE must have made two trips from London that year, as there is a Nov. 21st arrival shown with 78 passengers. >> Here are the two arrival reports from the New York Times. New York Times, July 6, 1871 Arrived New York, July 5 Ship Constantine, [captain] Creevey, London and Isle of Wight 35 ds., with mdse. and 182 passengers to [agents] Grinnell, Minturn & Co. Had fine weather, with a great deal of fog; June 20, on the Banks, spoke schr. Amery Knight of Marblehead; had 400 quintals fish. [In 1871, the passengers would have reached Michigan by train] New York Times, November 22, 1871 Arrived New York, November 21 Ship Constantine, [captain] Creevy, London and Isle of Wight 38 ds., with mdse. and 78 passengers to [agents] Chas. H. Marshall & Co. Has had strong westerly gales fron lon. 15 to 50, and since fine weather. [There was no reference to smallpox in this report, but smallpox was a worry in New York in 1871.] The ship was the packet ship Constantine, 1280 tons, built Portsmouth [New Hampshire] in 1850. She was owned in New York by Grinnell, Minturn & Co. Captain Jas. H Creevy or Creevey (both spellings were used), was listed as master of the Constantine from 1863 - 1877 in the American Registers at the Mystic Seaport website. [I happened to be interested in a post by Adrian on another list, and noticed he had posted to TSL]. -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------