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Snow and Ice

Performers

Jose Marti

Famous Personages

Curious Facts About Ships & Maritime Commerce to Habana

 

Here are a few miscellaneous interesting facts that we ran across while doing the transcription of passenger names from the Diario de la Marina:

 

dingSnow and Ice to Havana

In the mid-1800s there were many shipments of snow and ice (moslty from Boston) to Havana. According to Wikipedia, Frederic Tudor (1783-1864) was known as Boston's "Ice King" and made a fortune shipping ice to the Caribbean, Europe and even as far away as India. His Tudor Ice Company harvested ice in a number of New England ponds for distribution throughout the Caribbean, Europe and India from 1826 to 1892.

Here are some of the shipments of snow and ice to Havana that we have found while transcribing passengers lists:

date ship name from

travel time (days)

cargo
13 Feb 1833 Tuscar Boston 15 snow
17 Feb 1834 Tiber Boston 12 snow
07 Mar 1834 Dromo Boston 19 snow
19 Mar 1834 Burmah Boston 20 snow
19 Mar 1834 Prueba New Orleans 10 snow
03 Dec 1848 Vespasian Boston 18 ice
22 Feb 1849 Russian New York 14 ice
23 Feb 1849 Nary Varney Boston 20 ice
25 Feb 1849 Medora Boston 13 ice
07 Mar 1849 Lucinda Maria Boston 16 ice
25 Nov 1849 Prompt Boston 15 ice
03 Feb 1850 Helen Francis Boston 17 ice
24 Feb 1850 Abeona Boston 25 ice
26 Feb 1850 Hebron Boston 22 ice
08 Mar 1850 Ovando Boston 30 ice
21 Mar 1850 Aquila Boston 20 ice
09 Apr 1850 Siri Boston 33 ice
20 Apr 1850 Carolina C. Dow Boston 16 ice
24 Apr 1850 Lucinda Maria Boston 20 ice
17 May 1850 Harrisbury Boston 20 ice
26 May 1850 John Carver Boston 16 ice
16 Jul 1852 John W. White Boston 29 ice
10 Mar 1853 Attica Boston 20 ice
20 Mar 1853 Scott Dyer Boston 23 ice
11 Apr 1853 Lady Knight Boston 15 ice
13 Apr 1853 Nautilus Boston 16 ice
15 Apr 1853 Southerner Boston 17 ice
02 May 1853 Amigo-suck (?) Boston 17 ice
05 May 1853 Marion Boston 17 ice
08 Jun 1853 Julia Laura Boston 17 ice
07 Jan 1854 Fere Fowler Boston 17 ice
19 Jan 1854 Carniola Boston 16 ice
03 Mar 1854 Mangola Boston 13 ice
09 Mar 1854 Mary A. Vose Boston 14 ice
02 May 1854 Gostarelli Boston 19 ice
18 Feb 1866 Com. Dupont Boston 18 ice
27 Feb 1866 Roseway Boston 16 ice
18 Mar 1866 Hattie Boston 13 ice
5 Apr 1866 Sagadahoe Boston 16 ice
4 May 1866 Mira Boston 24 ice
26 May 1866 Glandale Boston 21 ice
3 Jun 1866 Monitor Boston 24 ice
13 Jun 1866 Chatanooga Boston 23 ice
26 Jun 1866 Ada Carter Boston 18 ice
4 Jan 1870 Norfiti Boston 15 ice
9 Jan 1870 Carrie Wyman Boston 17 ice
19 Jan 1870 Georgetta Lawrence Boston 16 ice
05 Apr 1870 Fidelia Boston 24 ice
09 Apr 1870 Mogunticook Boston 17 ice
10 Apr 1870 Harvest Home Boston 20 ice
14 Apr 1870 Mary Edson Boston 20 ice
25 Apr 1870 Kate Carleton Boston 18 ice
19 May 1870 Orihilla Boston 21 ice
04 Jan 1872 H.B. Emery Boston 17 ice
30 Jan 1872 Emily Boston 18 ice*
06 Feb 1872 Martin W. Brett Boston 19 ice*
15 Feb 1872 Almira Coombs Boston 20 ice
14 Apr 1872 Samuel Lindsey Boston 16 ice

* destined for the Tudor Ice Company in Havana.

 

dingPerformers

Ocassionally, the arrival of Stage performers and entertainers to Habana was recorded on the passenger lists. Here are some we have found:

date ship origin performer
27 Oct 1847 Guadalquivir New York 63 members of an Italian Opera company
12 Jan 1848 Adams Gray New Orleans "Captain Tom Thumb" (age 10), with his parents and 7 servants.
17 Dec 1848 Isabel Charleston, Savannah & Cayo Hueso 43 girl ballerinas from the Vienna company, accompanied by directors H. Rekte & J. Weis.
04 Nov 1849 Isabel Charleston, Savannah & Cayo Hueso The Count of S. James with 10 members of a dance company
22 Jan 1850 Ohio New York & Savannah Enrique Bennet with the giant Roberto Hale and the dwarf Ezra Mole
30 Mar 1850 Imogene Kingston Guillermo Archer & 22 members of an equestrian company
31 Dec 1851 Empire City New Orleans Juan Roosset & 16 members of a dance company
02 Dec 1852 Black Warrior New York Bernardo Gallol & 45 members of the company "Los Raveles"
21 Feb 1871 City of Merida Veracruz & Sisal S. Anexi & 14 members of a drama company
07 Feb 1872 Guadeloupe departure to Veracruz George Hanlon Lee & 7 members of an acrobat company
03 Mar 1874 City of New York New York C.A. Chizzola & 49 members of the French Comic Opera Company
14 Jan 1875 City of Havana departure to Veracruz & stopovers Emilio Schuman & 26 members of his company
04 Aug 1891 Reina Maria Cristina Santander & Le Havre Luisa Martinez Casado (famous stage actress)
09 Jan 1900 Yucatan Veracruz & Progreso Napoleon Sleny & 46 members of the opera

 

 

dingJosé Martí

The great Cuban patriot and revolutionary philosopher, Jose Marti, was born in 28 Jan 1853. On 21 Oct 1869, at the age of 16, he was arrested by the spanish authorities, accused of disloyalty for having written a letter to a companion of studies where he refered to the individual as an apostate for having joined the spanish army to combat the pro-independence cubans. On 4 Mar 1870 he was sentenced to 6 years in prison, but this was later commuted to exile in the Isle of Pines on 5 Sep 1870. On 15 Jan 1871, in response to family solicitations, the place of exile was changed to Spain so he could continue his studies. We have an entry on the data base dated 17 Jan 1871 recording his leaving for Cadiz on the ship Guipuzcoa.

We found another entry for Jose Marti arriving in Habana from Cadiz on the ship Puerto Rico on 20 Jan 1874. It is conceivable that this one might have been a return to Cuba unrecorded in the history books.

From 2 Jan to 24 Feb 1877 history books state that he returned incognito to Habana, using his middle name and maternal surname, Julian Perez1.

In our data base, we found two entries for a Julian Perez, one from Cadiz & Puerto Rico on 5 May 1868 and the other from La Coruña on 27 May 1852. Both these dates precede the date of his exile to Spain so they probably correspond to someone else with the same name.

Of course some of these may be simple name coincidences, since we have also found an entry of a Spanish Captain Jose Marti on 8 Dec 1852 from Cadiz and another entry of Jose Marti on 23 Dec 1852 from Mallorca. Both dates precede the birth date of our apostol.

1. Diccionario Enciclopedico de Historia Militar de Cuba, Tomo I, Biografias, Centro de Estudios Militares, Ediciones Verde Olivo, Habana, 2001. ISBN: 959-224-130-9.

 

dingFamous or Important Personages

Among the important personages visiting Cuba were the following:

date ship type ship name origin person
10 Feb 1854 br. steamship Teviot Tampico & Veracruz His Highness Prince NIcolas of Nassau
19 Jun 1866 american steamship Morro Castle New York Dr. & Mrs. C. Finlay (discovered method of transmission of yellow fever).
22 Feb 1871 american steamship Liberty Baltimore & Key West General Sherman, his wife and son.
05 Jan 1872 british navy corvette Niobe sea Captain Lamblin (Lampton) Loraine - saved many cuban patriots during the Virginius incident
27 Feb 1872 russian squadron of 3 ships Swetlana Panzacola His Imperial Highness Prince Alexis Alexandrovich of Russia

 

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