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Ship Leo 1846 Germany to Galveston, Texas

Source: (compiled from issues of the newspaper "Ostfriesische Nachrichten" - published in Breda, Iowa - and other literature and recent results through German researchers, especially Dr. Peter-Michael Pawlik in Bremen and Mr. Klaus Müller, Schiffahrtsmuseum der oldenburgischen Weserhäfen in Brake e.V.)
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It was in August of 1839 when on the new ship yard of Mr. Friedrich Christian von Buttel and Berend Hinrich Steenken in the small village of Dreisielen - in the estuart of the Hunte-River into the Weser-River north of the town of Berne, Grand-Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany -, a relatively small ship for 160 RT (register tons) was built by Mr. Hinrich Oltmanns. The measurements were: about 86 feet long in the bottom and 22 feet wide. The loading space had a heights of 9½ feet. The owners were B. H. Steenken and others. Until the year of 1852 the name of the Captain was J. H. Gerdes (also called Gärdes), followed by G. Braue. The home port for this schooner with the flag number 70 then became the town of Brake at the Weser-River. In about 1850/1851 the ship was sold in Venezuela in South America. After 1853 there is no more documentation available.

To the end of the year 1845 the schooner "Leo" left the port of Angostura (Ciudad Bolivar) and arrived Hamburg on February 27, 1846 followed by a trip to the port of Brake. Between April 15 and April 21, 1846 about 80 passengers - some from Ostfriesland - left the port of Brake and arrived after 9 weeks the "New Land" in Galveston, TX. Then in July 1846 the "Leo" was waiting around Matagorda near Galveston for a shipment to Antwerpen, Belgium. A complete passenger list was never found, instead Mr. Mimke Saathoff wrote in the last few years before his death on November 19, 1902 many very interesting stories in the German language about the trip and the happenings during the following years in and around New Fountain, TX.

Those stories in the original version are included in volume 2 of the series "Wo sind sie geblieben? - Ostfriesen in Amerika / Where did they stay? - East Frisians in America" A painting of the "Leo" is not available, but it had the same sizes and looked like the schooner "Marianne", according to the experts .

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