S.S Cimbria Sunk on Jan 19, 1883 near Borkum Island

[cousinsucher]

Hallo,

Does anyone know how/if I can obtain the passenger list for this voyage? I supposedly have a couple of ancestors who perished during the sinking.

[Anna Sara Weingart]

Hallo,

The requested passenger list (German: Passagierliste) is archived in the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg.
Here is the hyperlink to the historical document with the name Untergang des Dampfers "Cimbria" (English: Sinking of the ship "Cimbria"),
archive signature E 40/59 Bü 36 - http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=1-574047

To obtain a digital photo reproduction (German: Reproduktion) of the passenger list, please fill in this request form and send it to the archive (by email, I suppose).

http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/sixcms/media.php/120/47224/Repro_Auftrag_3.pdf

If you need any help, we will be pleased to advice you.
Best regards

[Anna Sara Weingart]

Here You can find a contact address - http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/web/48099?org_id=10463

[Anna Sara Weingart]

...Here is the hyperlink to the historical document...

It is not possible to see online pictures of the document.
You have to do a request for a reproduction. For a fee, You can get the digital photo reproduction. You can pay per invoice.

[Anna Sara Weingart]

Hallo,
I just found out, that the passenger list of Cimbria's last journey is online accessible on ancestry.com
It is sorted alphabetically. And I can have a look on it.
So, please give me the names of Your ancestors, and I examine if they were aboard .

[cousinsucher]

Hi Anna Sara,

Thanks so much! Last name is Ludemann.

[Anna Sara Weingart]

Yes, there are:
Adolph Lüdemann with wife and two daughters, and Fritz Luedemann.

[Anna Sara Weingart]

Please note that 56 people survived the accident. I don't know how to find out the names of them.

http://www.kuestenarchaeologie.de/files/upload/dokumente/Cimbria_1883_01.pdf

http://www.schiffsreisen-magazin.de/29-Cimbria-2.htm

Best regards

[Anna Sara Weingart]

Please note that 56 people survived the accident. I don't know how to find out the names of them....

You can browse the newspapers of the year 1883.

For example The New York Tribune: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...030214/issues/

In Germany: list of online accessible newspapers: http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/list/

[Anna Sara Weingart]

Issues of the New York Times can be searched

http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser

[Anna Sara Weingart]

I found a list of saved and of missing passengers, here

https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=ISST18830124.1.1#

that is a good source

[Anna Sara Weingart]

missing were:
Adolph Lubemann, Anna Lubemann, Minna Lubemann, Emma Lubemann

[Anna Sara Weingart]

And also Fritz Luedemann went missing
Adolph Lüdemann and family were "second cabin passengers"
Fritz Luedemann was a not specified passenger.

That was it, Best regards.

[Anna Sara Weingart]

The correct family name of Adolph and Fritz is Lüdemann

In the passenger list is the family name of Fritz written as Luedemann.
The German umlaut "ü" is frequently replaced with the two-letter combination "ue"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9C#U-umlaut

[Anna Sara Weingart]

I think Adolph Lüdemann has maybe survied, if he was able to swim to the nearby coastline??
Loook at this

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSJ-G37B