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Isak and brother Karl on the ship Romeo from Hull to NewYork or Boston 24 Juni 1881.
"ROMEO" Gustaf Långström/Longstrom left from Göteborg Sweden on July 21, 1893 and sailed on the ship Romeo to Hull England, then he took a train to Liverpool. This is from the records at the Police Chamber of Göteborg vol. EIX:51:576:1205. The ship "Romeo", designated for Hull, England. The traveler's agent was J.B. Lundberg. Then on July 27 1893, he took the ship S. S. Numidian from Liverpool to Quebec Canada, and arrived there on August 5 1893. (information below) This information is in the records found in the LDS library, for arrivals in Quebec. At this time I believe he took a train to the USA, but have not confirmed this. The steamship ROMEO was built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co LTD, Hull, in 1881, for the Wilson Line of Hull. 1885 tons; 260 x 34 x 17.9 feet (length x breadth x depth of hold); 1 funnel, 2 masts; single screw propulsion (2 cylinder compound engine, 350 nhp), service speed 12.5 knots; accommodation for 38 passengers in 1st class, 18 in 2nd class, 780 in steerage. The ROMEO was sunk on 3 March 1918, torpedoed by German submarine U-102, 7 miles south of the Mull of Galloway, on a passage to Liverpool, in ballast; 29 of the crew, including the captain, were lost -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information from Sue & Gery Swiggum co-owners TheShipsList© ROMEO was a ship of The Wilson Line of Hull. I expect that Gustaf sailed from Göteborg to Hull, then took the train to probably Liverpool, where he would have caught a transatlantic steamer to Quebec. Here are a few possible ships. Ship Name Departure Arrival Reel # List # NUMIDIAN Liverpool 1893-07-27 Quebec 1893-08-05 C-4539 67 OREGON Liverpool 1893-07-28 Quebec 1893-08-07 C-4539 69 LAKE HURON Liverpool 1893-07-29 Quebec 1893-08-11 C-4539 70 SARDINIAN Liverpool 1893-08-03 Quebec 1893-08-12 C-4539 71 LAKE WINNIPEG Liverpool 1893-08-05 Montreal 1893-08-14 C-4539 72 TORONTO Liverpool 1893-08-03 Quebec 1893-08-14 C-4539 73 The passenger manifest is on Microfilm at the National Archives of Canada, in Ottawa (NAC). The Ships are placed on the reel, in order of arrival. You can borrow this reel on an Inter Library Loan (ILL). You can find the details for this procedure at this URL. http://www.archives.ca/www/Genealogy.html Some Provincial Archives also carry some or all of these reels, they may use their own Ref: #, but will be able to cross reference using the NAC #. If they don't have the reels in their holdings, they could arrange the ILL for you. Many libraries will also arrange an ILL if they have a microfilm reader, or preferably a reader/copier. The LDS also holds the microfilm for the years below. For the port of Quebec: Film # 889440 to 889467 for the years 1865 to 1900 I don't know which reel number for which year though. For information on how your Grandfather may have traveled from Quebec to the US, go to our searchable mail list archives and search by subject, for example, GREAT LAKES-ROUTES/RATES ______________________________________________________ The Wilson ships that brought emigrants from Göteborg to Hull always departed on Fridays. Normally the crossing took 50 hours. If conditions were good, it happened that you could come over the North Sea in 39 hours. But sometimes you did not reach Hull until Monday morning after being at sea for 70 hours. I have notes made by an emigrant from here about his journey to America, and he says that the railway trip started in Hull at 4 in the afternoon. and ended at Liverpool Central Station at 10.30 in the evening. "My" emigrant had to stay 9 days in Liverpool before he could embark his Atlantic liner. As a rule emigrants expected to be able to leave in 1-4 days after arriving in Liverpool, but because of over bookings they often had to wait much longer. In the contracts it said (in brevier!) that the departure was to be in 12 days. Greetings, Kjell. TOP Some Provincial Archives also carry some or all of these reels, they may use their own Ref: #, but will be able to cross reference using the NAC #. If they don't have the reels in their holdings, they could arrange the ILL for you. Many libraries will also arrange an ILL if they have a microfilm reader, or preferably a reader/copier. The LDS also holds the microfilm for the years below. For the port of Quebec: Film # 889440 to 889467 for the years 1865 to 1900 I don't know which reel number for which year though. For information on how your Grandfather may have traveled from Quebec to the US, go to our searchable mail list archives and search by subject, for example, GREAT LAKES-ROUTES/RATES The Ships List Searchable Archives Database