Guion steamship Nevada, North Atlantic
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NEVADA
Single-crew steamship: 3125 tons: 345' x 43' x 28'
Built: 1868 by Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co. at Newcastle, England.
During the years between 1840 and 1890 three steamships transported
almost one-third of the Latter-Day Saint emigrants across the ocean to
America. Of these three vessels -- the Wyoming, Nevada, and Wisconsin
-- the British steamer Nevada of the Guion Line had the second largest
total of 9600 Saints on thirty-five voyages. The first Mormon company
aboard the Nevada sailed on 14 September 1870 and the last on 16
November 1889. The size of these companies ranged from 5 to 933
persons.
During these voyages some babies were born, one of which was named
William Nevada Webster and another Nevada Atlantic Larsen. There were
relatively few deaths, mostly children. However, Joseph E. Hyde, a
returning elder died, and his body was packed with ice and sent to
Utah.
The steamer ran between Liverpool, her home port, and New York. Among
the thousands of emigrants who came to America in this vessel were
James E. Talmage, later an apostle, and Niels C. Sonne, forbearer of
two general authorities. This Guion liner averaged 11.5 days on her
thirty-five passages. Shipmasters during these voyages were Captains
William Charles Green, William Forsyth, James Price, Thomas
W. Freeman, James A. Guard, Henry Gadd, Charles Leonard Rigby, Thomas
Jones, A. Wellesley Bremmer, John Douglas, and John
A. R. Cushing. Captain Bremmer skippered seven of the passages and
Captain Forsyth six.
This steamship was built with an iron hull, three decks, two masts
brig-rigged, one funnel, and inverted engines. Her speed was 11 knots,
and she was the first straight-stemmed vessel of the Guion Line. In
1881 her tonnage was increased to 3617 and compound engines were
installed. The Nevada was sold in 1893 to the Dominion Line and
renamed the Hamilton. In 1896 the vessel was scrapped.
(from "Ships, Saints, & Mariners -- A Maritime Encyclopedia of Mormon
Migration 1830-1890" by Conway B. Sonne, University of Utah Press,
Salt Lake City, 1987.)
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