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The steamship RHEIN, the first of two vessels of this name owned by
Norddeutscher Lloyd, was built by Caird & Co, Greenock, Scotland, and was
launched in August 1868. 2,901 tons; 106,4 x 12,22 meters (length x breadth);
clipper bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service
speed 12 knots; accommodation for 70 passengers in 1st class, 100 in 2nd class,
and 600 in steerage; crew of 117.
3 October 1868, maiden voyage, Bremen - Southampton - New York. 1878,
engine compounded and new boilers by builders; service speed 13 knots.
1889-18 September 1890, Bremen-Baltimore service. 1891, sold to Gray,
Liverpool. 1892, resold to A. Rimner & Co, Liverpool (register shows
Caird's as owner). 1893, sold to Jaeger Brothers, Liverpool. June 1894,
broken up in Barrow-in-Furness.
Uffe Kettwig and his wife Gesche (Schlömer) from Rorichmoor, Ostfriesland, came from Bremen to New York on 15 April 1871. The sailor Uffe was 28 years old, Gesche 20. They were accompanied by Christian Schlömer, aged 16 (was he Gesche's brother?).
Sidenote: in the passenger list of the SS Rhein, the surname is still spelled with "g". All more recent documents write "Kettwich".
The RHEIN in front of the Lloyd Wartehalle, built in
1869 at the Neuer Hafen, Bremerhaven. Source: Clas Broder Hansen, Passenger
liners from Germany, 1816-1990, translated from the German by Edward Force
(West Chester, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Pub., c1991), p. 27.
Source:
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