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By Susan (Johnson) Cunic
"...Axel Bäckman departed from his loved ones in Sideby (18 July 1890). Obtaining a passport at Åland Island (26 July 1890), he would sail to Steam Packet Wharf in Hull, England. Traveling by rail cross-country to Liverpool, he would board the noteworthy SS Teutonic. He might have dreamed of an ocean voyage on a three-mast schooner like those built at Kil Harbor in Sideby, but instead boarded a ship that earned its place in history.
When it launched, the SS Teutonic was the first White Star Line ship to discard square-rigged sails. Propeller driven, it brought young Axel Bäckman to America in just five days, twenty-hours, and forty-three minutes. 1 One year later, in just five days, sixteen hours, and thirty-one minutes, with a record Atlantic crossing speed of more than twenty knots, it would win Britain’s coveted Blue Riband Award (1891)..."
"...Axel Bäckman departed from his loved ones in Sideby (18 July 1890). Obtaining a passport at Åland Island (26 July 1890), he would sail to Steam Packet Wharf in Hull, England. Traveling by rail cross-country to Liverpool, he would board the noteworthy SS Teutonic. He might have dreamed of an ocean voyage on a three-mast schooner like those built at Kil Harbor in Sideby, but instead boarded a ship that earned its place in history.
When it launched, the SS Teutonic was the first White Star Line ship to discard square-rigged sails. Propeller driven, it brought young Axel Bäckman to America in just five days, twenty-hours, and forty-three minutes. 1 One year later, in just five days, sixteen hours, and thirty-one minutes, with a record Atlantic crossing speed of more than twenty knots, it would win Britain’s coveted Blue Riband Award (1891)..."
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The full article can be found in the on-line Quarterly which can be made accessible to SFHS members
here on Finlander. If you are an SFHS member and have been given access
then the on-line issue is found here: The Quarterly - Fall 2010.
If you are a member and want to gain access to the on-line Quarterly - or if you
want to apply for membership in order to gain access - please visit this page.
The full article can be found in the on-line Quarterly which can be made accessible to SFHS members
here on Finlander. If you are an SFHS member and have been given access
then the on-line issue is found here: The Quarterly - Fall 2010.
If you are a member and want to gain access to the on-line Quarterly - or if you
want to apply for membership in order to gain access - please visit this page.
