Name: Jacob Faust
Age: 34
Place of Origin: Hesse
Place of Destination: United States _TMPLT:
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Name: ShipName
VALUE: St. Nicolas
FIELD:
Name: ManifestDate
VALUE: 29 August 1854
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Name: ItemofInterest
VALUE: Jacob Faust
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Ship Notes:
The ST NICHOLAS was built in 1841 in New York by Westervelt & Mackey. 797 tons; 148 ft x 34 ft 6 in x 21 ft 5 in (length x beam x depth of hold). The ST NICHOLAS sailed in John J. Boyd and Edward Hincken's Second Line of packets between New York and Le Havre from 1841 to 1859, during which time her westward passages averaged 38 days, her shortest being 23 days, her longest 63. She is said to have burned at New York in 1859, following an explosion, but this is a mistake for the Mississippi steamship of the same name, which exploded and sank at New Orleans in June of that year: the packet ship ST NICHOLAS continued to sail between New York and Havre until at least the outbreak of the Civil War [Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule; The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), pp. 226, 286-287]. - [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 3 August 1998]
