The U.S. ship EMILY GARDINER was built at Belfast, Maine, in 1857, and was registered at Boston on 12 August 1859.

On 2 November 1861, the EMILY GARDINER was purchased in Boston from the owner, Gardiner, for $34,000 by the Hamburg shipping firm of Robert M. Sloman, who renamed her LORD BROUGHAM. Measurements as given in the Hamburg ship registration records: 363 Commerzlasten; 170,6 x 32 x 23,8 Hamburg Fuß (1 Hamburg Fuß = .28657 meter), length x beam x depth, "zwischen den Steven". On 20 November 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, the LORD BROUGHAM was captured by a French corvette near St. Catherine's lighthouse (presumably the lighthouse near St. Catherine's Point, on the southwestern coast of the Isle of Wight); she was condemned by a French prize court on 11 January 1871, and auctioned. Her new owners named her BRETHENE, but I know nothing of her later history or ultimate fate.

Sources: Walter Kresse, Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, N.F. 5 (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol. 2, p. 213; Ernst Hieke, Rob. M. Sloman Jr., errichtet 1793, Veröffentlichungen der Wirtschaftsgeschichtlichen Forschungsstelle e. V., Hamburg, Bd. 30 (Hamburg: Verlag Hanseatischer Merkur, 1968), p. 375. For her subsequent history as the BRETHENE, check the Bureau Veritas, Registre Maritime, the French / Continental equivalent to Lloyd's Register of Shipping.

The Hamburg brig, later bark, EMMA & LOUISE, sometimes called EMMA LOUISE, was built as a brig at Lübeck in 1832 [Bielbrief (certificate of registry) 16 March 1832] for the Hamburg firm of C. W. Schröder & Co. 82 Commerzlasten; 84 Hamburg Fuß (1 Hamburg Fuß = .28657 meter) long. Rebuilt (rekonstruiert) as a bark at Hamburg by Opffermann in 1846. 102 Commerzlasten; 106,2 x 26,8 x 14 Hamburg Fuß (length x beam x depth of hold), zwischen den Steven.

Masters:
     1832-1834 - J. Meyer
     1835-1850 - H. Haesloop
     1851-1854 - J. J. Viereck

Voyages:
     1832      - from Lübeck/London
     1832-1837 - Bahia
     1837/38   - New York/intermediate ports/Rio de Janeiro
     1838-1839 - Rio de Janeiro
     1839/40   - New York/intermediate ports/Rio de Janeiro
     1840      - Le Havre/Rio de Janeiro
     1841      - Rio de Janeiro
     1841/42   - London/intermediate ports/Rio de Janeiro
     1842/43   - New York/Rio de Janeiro
     1843/45   - Valparaiso/Callao/intermediate ports/Pisagua
     1845/46   - Gibraltar/Cadiz/Rio Grande do Sul
     1846/50   - Rio Grande do Sul/Antwerp/intermediate ports/Altona
     1850/51   - Santos/Desterro/Rio Grande do Sul/intermediate ports/Bahia
     1852      - Dona Francisca/Rio de Janeiro
     1853/54   - San Francisco/intermediate ports/Antwerp

On 11 October 1854, the EMMA & LOUISE was sold to Hans Block, of Hamburg.

Master:
     1854-1855 - H. Block

Voyage:
     1854      - Hartlepool

On 9 March 1855, Block sold the EMMA & LOUISE to Cornelius Andreas Rabe, also of Hamburg.

Masters:
     1855-1856 - the owner
     1856-1857 - H. Poll

Voyages:
     1855/56   - Rio de Janeiro/intermediate ports/Antwerp
     1856/57   - Liverpool/intermediate ports ...

On 24 June 1857, Rabe sold the EMMA LOUISE, as she was then called, to the Hamburg firm of Nolte & Comp.

Master:
     1857-1858 - C. A. Rabe (her former owner)

Voyages:
     1857/58   - from Liverpool/Hartlepool
     1858      - Newport/intermediate ports ...

The EMMA (&) LOUISE was reported to have stranded in 1858, most probably off the coast of Great Britain.

Source: Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5. (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969),, vol. 1, p. 57; vol. 2, pp. 80-81, 123, 187.

The Hamburg ship EMMY was built at Stockholm in 1847, and acquired in the same year by the Hamburg shipping firm of Joh[ann] Ces[ar] Godeffroy & Sohn [Bielbrief (certificate of registry), 6 December 1847]. 277 Commerzlasten; physical dimensions not known.

Masters:
     1848-1849 - M. Wilcken
     1849-1850 - J. H. O. Meyer

Voyages:
     1847/49 - from Stockholm/intermediate ports/Rotterdam
     1849/50 - Adelaide/Penang/Singapore
     1850    - Valparaiso/San Francisco

The EMMY was lost in December 1850 in the Cape Verde Islands.

Source: Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5 (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol. 1, p. 165.

The steamship EMS was built for Norddeutscher Lloyd by John Elder & Co., Glasgow (yard #284), and was launched on 27 February 1884. 4,730 tons; 135,50 x 14,32 meters (length x breadth); straight stem, 2 funnels, 4 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, 3-cylinder, double-expansion engines, service speed 16.5 knots; accommodation for 194 passengers in 1st class, 134 in 2nd class, and 876 in steerage; crew of 156 to 184.

4 June 1884, maiden voyage, Bremen - Southampton - New York. 1892, major rebuilding; 5,129 tons. 1894, stern broken in a storm; towed to the Azores, and from there to Southampton for repairs. 1895-96, funnels lengthened and masts reduced to two. 14 March 1896, last voyage, Bremen - Southampton - New York. 16 April 1896, first voyage, Genoa - Naples - New York. 1899, intended sale, along with the FULDA and WERRA, to the Beaver Line falls through. 25 October 1900, last voyage, Genoa - Naples - New York. 1901, purchased by the Elder Dempster Line and renamed LAKE SIMCOE. 20 August 1901, first voyage, Liverpool - Quebec - Montreal. 4 March 1903, last voyage, Liverpool-St. John, New Brunswick. 18 August 1903, 1 roundtrip voyage, Liverpool - Quebec - Montreal, chartered by Canadian Pacific. September 1905, sold to Genoa for scrap for £14,000. 23 October 1905, arrived at Genoa for scrapping.

Sources: Arnold Kludas, Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd, Bd. 1: 1857 bis 1919 (Herford: Koehler, c1991), pp. 32-33 (2 photographs); Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994), pp. 89-90, no. 56 (photograph); 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, p. 552. Also pictured in Clas Broder Hansen, Passenger Liners from Germany, 1816-1990, translated by Edward Force (West Chester, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, c1991), p. 34.