This is the ship that transported August and Rika (Knaack) Heiden and their two sons, Heinrich and Ernst and one daughter, Meta, to America in June of 1873.  The voyage went from Hamburg, Germany to Southhampton, England to New York. The ship was retired from trans-Atlantic trips later that year.

The SS Saxonia was built by Caird & Co, Greenock, Scotland, for the Hamburg American Line, and launched on 21 August 1857. It was the first of three ships of this name owned by the Hamburg America Line. She was rigged for sail and was one of six sister ships, the others being "Hammonia", "Borussia", "Austria", "Bavaria" and "Teutonia".

• 2,684 tons, 95 x 13 meters (311.7 x 42.6 feet, length x beam); clipper bow, 1 funnel, 3 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service speed 10 knots; Passenger accommodation: 60 in 1st Class, 120 in 2nd Class, and 450 in Steerage-Class.

 It was chartered by the British government as an Indian Mutiny transport.

• 1 April 1858, first voyage, Hamburg-Southampton-New York.

• 5 October 1873, last voyage, Hamburg-New York
  (subsequently ran Hamburg-West Indies).

• 1879, sold to the Russian Volunteer Fleet and renamed the NIJNI NOVGOROD (Russian Volunteer Fleet).

• 1895, scrapped

[Information from: 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. 1 (1975), p. 388.]

[Pictured in Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 300, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970.]