The Brig "Brødrene" from Trondheim at full speed with billowing sails. She was active in the emigrant trade. Painting of the brig Brødrene, by P. Pedersen. The Captain, Johan Henrik Koen, was also co-owner of the ship.

Sailships, steamships and Norwegian emigrants

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In the decades before the American Civil War and also the first few years after the war, most Norwegian emigrants chose to buy a ticket on a Norwegian sailing ship that brought passengers directly from a Norwegian port to America. After the Civil War, Quebec in Canada replaced New York City as the main port […]

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