The Bremen bark AEOLUS was built at Libau, Kurland (now Liepaja, Latvia) by Hugo Slevogt. 447 Lasten; 132 x 33 Bremer Fuß / 38,19 x 9,55 meters (length x beam).
AEOLUS (1849)
Oil painting, F. Müller, 1851, of the Bremen bark AEOLUS flying the house flag of Hermann Bischoff, Bremerhaven. 57 x 83 cm. Focke-Museum, Bremen, Inv.-Nr. B.269, acquired in 1905 from the merchant family Cornelius, Bremen. Source: Johannes Lachs, Schiffe aus Bremen; Bilder und Modelle im Focke-Museum (Bremen: H. M. Hauschild, [1994]), p. 102, no. 76. To request a copy of this picture, contact the Focke-Museum.
By the end of the eighteenth century the term barque (sometimes, particularly in the USA, spelled bark) came to refer to any vessel with a particular type of sail-plan. This comprises three (or more) masts, fore-and-aft sails on the aftermost mast and square sails on all other masts. Barques were the workhorse of the Golden Age of Sail in the mid 19th century as they attained passages that nearly matched full rigged ships but could operate with smaller crews.
Wikipedia article on Bark/Barque
Voyages:
Russian bark AEOLUS, Heinrich Lübben, master, arrived at New Orleans on 5 November 1850 (passenger manifest dated 6 November), from Bremerhaven 7 September 1850, with 280 passengers, consigned to the master.
Bremen bark AEOLUS, Heinrich Lübben, master, arrived at Baltimore on 19 September 1851 (passenger manifest dated 20 September), from Bremerhaven 8 July 1851, with 290 passengers.
Bremen bark AEOLUS, Heinrich Lübben, master, arrived at Baltimore on 28 April 1852, from Bremerhaven 5 March 1852, with 286 passengers.
Bremen bark AEOLUS, Heinrich Lübben, master, arrived at New Orleans on 26 October 1852 (passenger manifest dated 27 October), from Bremerhaven 5 September 1852, with 287 passengers, consigned to the master.
note: 51 days from Bremen to New Orleans
Bremen bark AEOLUS, Heinrich Lübben, master, arrived at Baltimore on 23 August 1853, from Bremerhaven 19 June 1853, with 293 passengers.
Bremen bark AEOLUS, Heinrich Lübben, master, arrived at Baltimore on 29 May 1854 (passenger manifest dated 30 May), from Bremerhaven 21 April 1854, with 281 passengers.
Bremen bark AEOLUS, Heinrich Lübben, master, originally scheduled to arrive at New Orleans on 10 November 1854 (passenger manifest dated 14 November), departed from Bremerhaven 6 September 1854, with 324 passengers.
Bremen bark AEOLUS, Gerdes, master, arrived at New York on 7 July 1855 (passenger manifest dated 10 July), from Bremerhaven 20 May 1855, with 252 passengers, consigned to Lobach & Schepler.