Seven Special Steamship Websites
Photographs and histories of steamships mentioned in family letters have been a major area of research. These are some of the pertinent (or just fascinating) websites I’ve found,
From Sails to Steam
While we were building the Panama Canal, steamships were replacing sails.
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Hurrah for The “Little Stove!”
At 7 a.m. a swell struck us and we have rocked up and down all day. I’ve watched it with fascination and haven’t needed the little stove yet. We reach Hatteras about 5 p.m. & then will see!
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“Past Cape Hatteras All Right and I thought…”
“My goodness, we got by Hatteras all right & I thought we were out of all trouble! A SE gale met us and waters rose up & up like the steep roof of a house, covered with white caps… We rocked and we reeled and we rolled…”
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Home from Cuba: 1907
We could scarcely expect better passage than thus far—tho rolling a little now—and tho’ not feeling ill I did not want to think of dinner—and sat on deck—until now in thinnest of waists—even warmer than last night– Have been in Gulf Stream all day…
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The Cocoa Palm Poem
‘Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm,On the Indian Sea, by the isles of balm?Or is it a ship in the breezeless calm?”
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Mr. Potter Steams Past Florida
“We are in the Gulf steamer crossing the Straights heading a little west of south …on our “floating prison” nothing is in view but sky and sea. A fresh wind is blowing from East and the steamer is rolling so penmanship is rather uncertain and there was many vacant seats at breakfast table.”
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Uncle Charlie and Col. Higginson
“Col. Higginson’s Life in a Black Regiment … is worth reading.”
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1907: The S.S. Brunswick Mystery
I’ve found many ships, with their ownership history, construction data, and eventual demise at www.theshipslist.com/ but neither the Brunswick company, nor the ship itself, are listed.
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Easter 2017 and a letter written on Easter 1907
The Potter branch of my family maintained a social and community-service membership in the Unitarian Church. Their religious orientation was most likely, like many of our New England forebearers, deist, or maybe agnostic, rather than Christian.
