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  1. The course was now southwest by west, Ellen Maria making ten knots. On the afternoon of 18 February, a Friday, the ship was calculated at nine hundred miles form New Orleans, at a position 27º40' north latitude and 72º west longitude, approaching the Bahamas. Water restrictions were lifted by Captain Whitmore.

  2. Ellen Maria Voyages | Saints by Sea. Latter-day Saint Immigration to America. Browse Voyages. Voyages on the ship "Ellen Maria" Liverpool to New Orleans 1 Feb 1851 - 7 Apr 1851 ship: Ellen Maria 379 passengers, 2 accounts. Liverpool to New Orleans 10 Feb 1852 - 5 Apr 1852 ship: Ellen Maria 378 passengers, 5 accounts.

  3. The Ellen Maria, “a good-looking craft” in the eyes of one of her passengers, 1 lay quiet as a sleeping duck at Mosely Docks in Liverpool, England, in early January 1853. From a distance, the crosshatch pattern of her masts and yardarms blended with those of other sailing ships into a forest of bare horizontals and verticals reaching ...

  4. Aug 17, 2016 · The ship Ellen Maria prepares to sail from Liverpool, England, for America on February 1, 1851. At the time, over 50,000 Latter-day Saints lived in the British Isles. Emigration was possible as the result of the Perpetual Emigrating Fund, which loaned money to impoverished Latter-day Saints on the promise they would repay the loan so others ...

  5. Voyage Information. Ship Name. Ellen Maria. Vessel Type. Ship. Departure. 17 Jan 1853 from Liverpool. Arrival. 6 Mar 1853 at New Orleans.

  6. Jenson, History of the Scandinavian Mission, 46–47, states that upon their arrival in Liverpool the Saints “were informed that they were too late to sail on the ‘Ellen Maria,’ . . . for that ship had just cleared port the same day.”

  7. This is an account of the LDS English immigrant ship Ellen Maria's passage across the Atlantic in January 1853. Poet Hannah Last Cornaby was on this voyage, ...