Ship Advert for Belfast to New Orleans

                        BELFAST EMIGRANT ADVERT 1833


                                 Now in Port

                            FOR NEW ORLEANS
           The First Class, Coppered, and Copper-fastened Brig
                      ROSEBANK, of Belfast
                       DAVID BOYD,  Commander,
                       To Sail about the 15th December.

               The above favourite Vessel will, as usual, be fitted up in
                the most comfortable manner for Passengers.
                   For Freight or Passage, apply to
                                           David Grainger
                 Belfast, 26th Nov 1833.        Donegall Quay.
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This advert for the port of New Orleans in Louisiana indicates the interest of
Belfast people in the growing cotton industry. It also shows that the southern
states were attractive to some emigrants from the north of Ireland in the
mid-nineteenth century.