Information on Heinrich Fenrich(1684 total words in this text) (593 Reads) 
- <font size="2" color="#000000">Heinrich Fenrich was a resident
of the city of Kirrlach in the
Baden-Wurttemburg area of southern Germany before he immigrated
to the United States
<font size="2" color="#000000">Having acquired a copy of a ships manifest,
we have obtained the following information:
- <font size="2" color="#000000">Heinrich Fenrich arrived in
America on November 20, 1871 on the German steamship SS Deutschland
from the port of Bremen, Germany.
- <font size="2" color="#000000">He arrived in the District of New
York - Port of New York (before Ellis Island existed).
- <font size="2" color="#000000">Heinrich was 21 years old and was
listed as a farmer.
- <font size="2" color="#000000">He was passenger #263.
- <font size="2" color="#000000">The Master of the steamship was
H.A.F. Neynabers, who made numerous passages as Captain of the SS
Deutschland.
<font size="2" color="#317891">The SS Deutschland - 1866
<font size="1" color="#000000">(click on photo for larger view)
<font size="2" color="#000000">A brief history of the SS
Deutschland:
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The steamship DEUTSCHLAND was built for Norddeutscher Lloyd by
Caird & Co (yard #132), Greenock, Scotland, and was launched on 29 May
1866. 2,947 tons; 99,06 x 12,19 meters/325 x 40 ft (length x breadth);
clipper bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion,
single inverted engine (1800 psi), service speed 11 knots;
accommodation for 60 passengers in 1st class, 120 in 2nd class, and
700 in steerage; crew of 105.
14 October 1866, maiden voyage, Bremen - Southampton - New York.
1869, king Wilhelm of Prussia, Bismarck, Field Marshal v. Moltke and
Minister v. Roon, after all of whom later ships were named,
breakfasted on board the DEUTSCHLAND in Bremerhaven. 18 January 1874,
bound from Bremen and Southampton for New York, lost all propeller
blades in lat 46 30 N, lon 41 17 W; towed to Southampton (arrived 27
January) by steamship BRAUNSCHWEIG; 8 February, resumed voyage to New
York. 1874, given compound engine: 1500 hp, service speed 13 knots. 6
December 1875, bound from Bremen for Southampton and New York, in
heavy storm and fog, driven off course by strong currents and stranded
at 5 AM off Kentish Knock, in the estuary of the River Thames. Because
of the severity of the storm, it was 24 hours before shore stations
became aware of the wreck, and it took another 6 hours before the
British paddle-wheel tug LIVERPOOL reached the site and rescued the
173 survivors; 157 others, including the captain, froze to death or
drowned when the deck was flooded during high tide.
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Sources: Arnold Kludas, Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd,
Bd. 1: 1857 bis 1919 (Herford: Koehler, c1991), pp. 12-13
(photograph); Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970;
History, Fleet, Ship Mails, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co.,
c1994), pp. 19, no. 14 (photograph), and 21-22; 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. 545. The Focke-Museum,
Bremen, also has pictorial information on the wreck of the
DEUTSCHLAND.
<font size="2" color="#317891">Why leave
Southern Germany?
- <font size="2">If they left between 1865 and 1875, they did not come to a
country in the middle of its own civil war. The war here was over by
April 1865.
- <font size="2">The underlying issue here could be L-A-N-D. The dream for soooo
many was to own land.
- <font size="2">Even though they may have gone to urban areas (many Germans
headed for cities), there's evidence in letters home, etc., that
when given the chance, they bought farms and settled down.
- <font size="2">This period in German history was also one of wars. 1864,
Austrian and Prussian War with Denmark, over Denmark's incursion
into the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.
- <font size="2">1866: Austria and Prussia's War with each other. Bad news big
time for Austria. And since Austria was one of the members of the
Confederation attacked by Prussia, Austria asked for (and rec'd)
help from the other members. Baden delayed as long as possible in
sending troops, but they were sent.
- <font size="2">And then there is, of course, the big war with France. The
troops went through Baden, if I recall my maps correctly. The first
couple of weeks, the war was unpopular, but that changed. Then there
was unification.
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Contibuted by:
Ruth Kittner
writegrants@yahoo.com
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