Across the Deep Blue Sea by Odd Lovoll

Author:Odd Lovoll [Lovoll, Odd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-87351-972-4
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2015-04-18T23:00:00+00:00

TABLE 1: Number of Norwegian Passengers Disembarking from Sailing Vessels to the Consular District of Quebec, 1850–74

The majority of Norwegian emigrants who did not travel directly from Norway left from Liverpool to New York in the 1850s, but their numbers were small. Liverpool became the great port of departure for emigrants. There were early examples of Atlantic crossings by steamships, but it was not until the late 1840s that the movement gained impetus. Auxiliary steam power had been applied to sailing vessels many years before its use across the Atlantic. In Britain as well as Norway, as has been suggested, steam-powered ships were mainly limited to the coastal service, and, as construction and power improved, steamships also traveled to neighboring countries. Norwegian steamships had after 1827 regular runs on Gothenburg, Copenhagen, and Kiel, and from 1841 along the entire coast of Norway; private Norwegian steamship companies were established in the 1850s in order to secure regular traffic at the Hanseatic city Hamburg, Norway’s most important foreign market at that time.

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