Archive for April, 2011
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Henry T. Dorry
I love your MaritimeHeritage website! It is a wonderful service. I noticed it recently via the California Historical Society on LinkedIn. I do have some questions and hope that you can send me in the best research direction. I am researching Henry T. Dorry. He was a ship carpenter, born 1846 in Germany, immigrated to [...]
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A Plan. A Request.
My 14-year-old, well-regarded Maritime Heritage Project (MaritimeHeritage.org) receives more than 2.3 million visitors per year; its adjunct site – International Harbors (InternationalHarbors.com) – is a relatively new project receiving 86,000 requests per year and growing. The audiences for both are 35-44, college educated, mostly female, and international; they are affluent and travel in search of [...]
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Return Voyages
Are there any records of outbound ships from San Francisco, returning to the East Coast? My 4th great grandfather, Abner Lord Otis, sailed from Boston on the Henry Lee, arriving in San Francisco on Sept.13, 1849, Family tradition tells that he found gold. However, on his return voyage, he was robbed, and thrown overboard. I [...]
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Captain Nathaniel Webber
Just as I finished writing that all the work on The Maritime Heritage Project site is the work of D.A. Levy, Gina Sammis sent in this most impressive compilation of her research about The Story of Nathaniel Webber. Captain Webber is her great-great-great grandfather.
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Patrick Gaughran
Dear D. A. Levy and all at the Maritime Heritage Project, I am looking for facts regarding death at sea in 1852: In particular, I know of a member of the US Army 4th Infantry, Patrick Gaughran, who died of cholera on board the USS Golden Gateen route from Panama to San Francisco on 29 [...]
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Patrick Delaney
My great grandfather Patrick Delaney was a ship’s Captain. He was born in Cape Breton and moved to Gloucester, Maine. However, he ended up being one of the people who invested and sailed on the Charles Levi Woodbury–they were suppose to sail up to Canada and go in search of gold in the Yukon Gold [...]
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Samuel J. Hensley
Hello, I am a 3x great-niece of Major Samuel J. Hensley. According to the information I have, he bought the SS Brother Jonathan in 1860. The ship sunk in 1865 near Crescent City, California As I read thru your information on this ship, I did not see any mention of Major Hensley and I was [...]
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Jose Preston Ames, 1892
Yesterday my heart almost popped out while reading the Boy is missing article on the Uruguayan section of your Ports of the World. That 10 year old missing boy is my grandfather Jose Preston Ames! He was son of Preston Ames (an American dentist) and Octavia Harriague and was born in 1892 in Paysandú, Uruguay. [...]
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Meiggs Wharf, 1860s
Author : Madelyn Bechini E-mail : mbboots@nventure.com I am researching master mariner ancestors, John and Peter Stofen arriving in San Francisco around the early 1860′s or before, managing Meiggs Wharf in SF and then shipping produce to the embarcadero in Sonoma. They also participated in the 4th of July MM races on SF Bay, racing [...]
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Charles B. Ewer, 1852
Hello. I am researching my ancestor, Charles B. Ewer who sailed on the SS North America in Feb/Mar 1852. The ship foundered and Charles was stuck on the Isthmus of Panama for 2 months. There was quite a mishap and some of the passengers contracted yellow fever and died in Panama. He then traveled on [...]
