From Denmark to Manti (history still in progress...)

Life in Denmark

In 1868, 627 Scandinavian emigrants boarded steamers, crossed the North Sea, landed in Hull, England and continued their journey by railroad to Liverpool. Joined by 149 saints from the British Isles, they boarded Emerald Isle on the 19th of June, setting sail the next day.

A Packet Ship

The Emerald Isle was a clipper packet built in 1853 by Trufant & Drummond at Bath, Maine. It carried at total of 1280 Mormons in three voyages across the Atlantic. The first passage began in 1855 at Liverpool with 350 Saints on board. Four years later it sailed out of Liverpool with fifty-four Saints. In 1868 it was the last sailing vessel to bring LDS emigrants to the US. Among the 876 Saints in the company were Neils C Poulsen, Christina Christensen Lund, and some of her family members.