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Uffe Gerdes Kettwich (1842-1922) oo Gesche Hinrichs Schlömer (1850-1952)
Bremen, Germany to New York, 15 April 1871
List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the N. G. S. S. Rhein whereof J. C. Meyer is Master, from Bremen burthen (no entry) tons.
Columns represent:
1) Name
2) Age, years or months
3) Sex
4) Occupation
5) Country to which they severally belong
6) country which they intend to inhabit
7) Part of the vessel occupied by each during the voyage
Kettwig, Uffe 28y M Sailor Rorichmoor USA Steerage&Deckrms
Kettwig, Gesche 20y F Rorichmoor USA Steerage&Deckrms
Schlömer, Christian 16y M Rorichmoor USA Steerage&Deckrms
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 340, List 282.
Transcribed by Lora Lee Ament and Patricia Kennedy members of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, 13 April 2005
Source: http://immigrantships.net
Rhein (1868)
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.
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.
The RHEIN had been laid down as the ODER, but was delivered as the RHEIN, to replace the vessel originally laid down as the RHEIN, but sold on the stocks to the Royal Mail Steamship Co, and launched in February 1868 as the NEVA.
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.
Sources: Arnold Kludas, Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd, Bd. 1: 1857 bis 1919 (Herford: Koehler, c1991), pp. 14-15 (picture); Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994), p. 48 (picture); Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), p. 546.
Voyages:
1. Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship RHEIN, Capt Neynaber, arrived at New York on 2 December 1881, from Bremen 13 November, via Southampton 16 November. "Had strong SW and NW gales the entire passage."
2. Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship RHEIN, Capt. Jungst, arrived at New York on 10 July 1884, 11 days from Bremen.
3. Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship RHEIN, Capt. Jungst, arrived at New York on 17 September 1884 (passenger list dated 18 September 1884), from Bremen 6 September.
4. Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship RHEIN, Capt. Jungst, arrived at New York on 19 September 1885, from Bremen 6 September, via Southampton.
Source: http://www.geocities.com/mppraetorius/
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