Immigration & Steamships
Collection
Identifier: other-06
Scope and Contents
The Immigration and Steamships database contains descriptive information about 320 passenger and immigrant vessels built from 1833 to 1929. Records may identify the vessel, year built, shipping line, builder and place of construction, tonnage and dimensions, machinery and speed, masts and funnels, passenger capacities, routes, and vessel history. Most records are associated with one or more images from Mystic Seaport Museum collections.
Dates
- Creation: 1833 - 1929
Extent
320 record(s)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Vessel records are arranged alphabetically by vessel name and chronologically by year built when names repeat.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Leah Prescott
- Date
- 9/21/2026
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Other Resources Repository
Contact:
Mystic Seaport Museum
112 Greenmanville Ave.
Mystic Connecticut 06355 USA
860.572.5367
[email protected]
Mystic Seaport Museum
112 Greenmanville Ave.
Mystic Connecticut 06355 USA
860.572.5367
[email protected]