ABOUT THE HOLSATIA 

The HOLSATIA was built by Caird & Co, Greenock, 
for the Hamburg American Line, and was launched on 9 March 1868. 
3,134 tons; 103,60 x 12,20 meters (339.9 x 40 feet, length x beam); 
straight bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, 
service speed 12 knots; passenger accommodation for 90 in 1st class, 
130 in 2nd class, and 520 in steerage. 
Captains: N. Trautmann, 1868; H. Ehlers, 1868-1870; J. E. Meier, 
1870-1872; B. H. A. Barends, 1872-1875; H. F. Schwensen, 1878; 
C. L. Brandt, 1878. 10 June 1868, maiden voyage, 
Hamburg-Southampton-New York. 14 April 1875, last voyage,
Hamburg - Havre - New York; laid up. 1877, compound engines.
30 January 1878, resumed Hamburg-Havre-New York service. 
20 March 1878, last voyage, Hamburg-Havre-New York (2 roundtrip voyages). 
1878, acquired by the Russian Volunteer Fleet and renamed ROSSIJA. 
1894, DNESTR (Russian navy). 1910, BLOKSHIF No 5 (hulk). October 1916, 
at Trebizond, in the Black Sea [ Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor 
North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Service
Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands:
Brookside Publications), vol. 1 (1975), p. 389]. 
Pictured in Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors 
(Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 127, 
courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, 
Salem, MA 01970. 
For additional information on the HOLSATIA, see Arnold Kludas 
and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika-Linie, Bd. 
1. 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979). [Posted to the Emigration
-ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 13 December 1997]