Dorothea Gertrud HOLLINDEN

The passenger list for the SS. Trave, arriving from Bremen in New York on 16 July 1886 has a Dora Hollander, a 14 year old female, whose last residence was Kloppenburg, Germany The steamship TRAVE was built for Norddeutscher Lloyd by Fairfield Co Ltd, Glasgow (yard #311), and was launched on 18 February 1886. 4,966 tons; 138,42 x 14,67 meters (length x breadth); straight stem, 2 funnels, 4 masts; steel construction, screw propulsion, 1 triple-expansion engine, service speed 17 to 17.5 knots; accommodation for 224 passengers in 1st class, 90 in 2nd class, and 660 in steerage; crew of 185. 5 June 1886, maiden voyage, Bremen - Southampton - New York. 21 June 1892, collided with the sailing ship FRED B. TAYLOR, which sank with the loss of 2 lives. June 1895, one of 4 guest ships supplied by Norddeutscher Lloyd for the opening of the new Kaiser Wilhelm Canal at Kiel. 1896/97, rebuilt by AG Vulcan, Stettin; 5,262 tons, masts reduced to 2, funnels lengthened, engine and boilers overhauled. 29 January 1901, last voyage, Bremen - Southampton - New York. 20 March 1901-23 April 1903, Genoa - Naples - New York. 1903-1906, laid up. 11 March 1906-26 October 1907, 9 roundtrip voyages, Bremen-New York. 1908, sold to Hamburg shipbreakers. 1909, scrapped. Sources: Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails (2 vols.; Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994-c1995), vol. 1, p. 93, no. 61 (photograph, after rebuild of 1896/97); Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), p. 553. Also photograph, in her original form, in Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 327, courtesy of Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut. Voyages:

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