Antwerp, Belgium Passenger Lists 1892-1939
First Vessel To Enter The New Siberia Dock At Antwerp - 1907. GGA Image ID # 1759fecab9
Passenger Lists available from the GG Archives from the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. Organized by Date of Departure, Steamship Line, Steamship or Ocean Liner, Class of Passengers, Route, and the Ship's Captain.
Antwerp is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp province of Flanders. Antwerp is located on the right (eastern) bank of the river Scheldt, which is linked to the North Sea by the Westerschelde estuary. The city has one of the largest seaports in Europe.

1892-05-07 SS Friesland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 7 May 1892
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Dover
- Commander: Captain Wm. G. Randle

1895-07-20 SS Friesland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 20 July 1895
- Route: Antwerp to New York
- Commander: Captain H. E. Nickels

1904-08-13 SS Vaderland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 13 August 1904
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Dover
- Commander: Captain R. C. Ehoff

1904-09-10 RMS Vaderland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin Class
- Date of Departure: 10 September 1904
- Route: Antwerp for New York via Dover
- Commander: Captain R. C. Ehoff

1906-05-12 SS Finland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: First and Second Cabin
- Date of Departure: 12 May 1906
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Dover
- Commander: Captain G. C. Apfeld

1908-08-08 SS Zeeland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 8 August 1908
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Dover
- Commander: Captain J. S. Ball

1910-08-27 RMS Lapland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Second Class
- Date of Departure: 27 August 1910
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Dover
- Commander: Captain H. D. Doxrud

1911-09-16 RMS Vaderland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: First Class
- Date of Departure: 16 September 1911
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Dover
- Commander: Captain R. Prager

1920-04-21 RMS Lapland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Second Class
- Date of Departure: 21 April 1920
- Route: Antwerp for New York via Southampton
- Commander: Captain J. Bradshaw

1923-08-08 SS Lapland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 8 August 1923
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg
- Commander: Captain T. Howell

1924-06-26 SS Zeeland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 26 June 1924
- Route: New York to Antwerp via Plymouth and Cherbourg
- Commander: Captain A. J. Thomas

1925-07-30 SS Zeeland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 30 July 1925
- Route: New York to Antwerp via Plymouth and Cherbourg
- Commander: Captain A. J. Thomas

1926-06-26 RMS Belgenland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 26 June 1926
- Route: New York to Antwerp via Plymouth and Cherbourg
- Commander: Captain T. Howell

1926-06-30 SS Melita Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Canadian Pacific (CPOS)
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 30 June 1926
- Route: Antwerp, Southampton, and Cherbourg to Quebec and Montreal
- Commander: Captain A. H. Notley

1926-08-27 SS Pennland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 27 August 1926
- Route: Antwerp to Halifax and New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton
- Commander: Captain William A. Morehouse

1926-09-03 SS Belgenland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Tourist Third Cabin
- Date of Departure: 3 September 1926
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton
- Commander: Captain Th. Howell

1928-07-27 SS Pennland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 27 July 1928
- Route: Antwerp to Halifax and New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton
- Commander: Captain V. L. Making

1928-08-31 SS Lapland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 31 August 1928
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg
- Commander: Captain H. Harvey

1929-08-16 SS Arabic Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Tourist Third Cabin
- Date of Departure: 16 August 1929
- Route: Antwerp to Halifax and New York via Southampton, Cherbourg, and Queenstown (Cobh)
- Commander: Captain J. B. Bulman

1929-11-02 SS Lapland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 2 November 1929
- Route: New York to Antwerp via Plymouth and Cherbourg
- Commander: Captain H. Harvey

1930-07-25 SS Lapland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 25 July 1930
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg
- Commander: Captain H. Harvey

1930-08-08 RMS Belgenland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Tourist
- Date of Departure: 8 August 1930
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg
- Commander: Captain W. A. Morehouse

1930-08-22 SS Lapland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Tourist
- Date of Departure: 22 August 1930
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Southampton and Cherbourg
- Commander: Captain H. Harvey

1932-08-26 SS Pennland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 26 August 1932
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Le Havre and Southampton
- Commander: Captain V. L. Making

1934-08-24 SS Pennland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 24 August 1934
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Le Havre and Southampton
- Commander: Captain H. Harvey

1936-09-05 SS Pennland Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin
- Date of Departure: 5 September 1936
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Southampton
- Commander: Captain Walter Sengpiel

1938-09-24 SS Gerolstein Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Arnold Bernstein / Red Star Line
- Class of Passengers: Tourist Third Cabin
- Date of Departure: 24 September 1938
- Route: Antwerp to New York
- Commander: Captain Friedrich Ahrens

1939-09-09 SS Volendam Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Holland-America Line
- Class of Passengers: Cabin, Tourist and Third Class
- Date of Departure: 9 September 1939
- Route: Antwerp to New York via Boulogne-sur-Mer and Southampton
- Commander: Captain J. P. Webster
View of the Port of Antwerp from an Airplane in 1921. GGA Image ID # 1420435d51
Like most European ports, Antwerp is an artificial one consisting of the river outlet leading to the sea—three hour's boat journey distant. The enormous artificial "basins" reached from the river employing locks. In the River Schell (or L'Escaut as the French call it), only a lew of the more extensive lines docked.
Because of its waterway connections with the Rhine, Antwerp was the principal port for South Germany. Only in the last few years has Rotterdam rivaled Antwerp.
Because of its steamship lines to the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia, many commodities' principal port and market from all climes. Here a continental grain center, here the rubber and ivory market of the world, goods of the Belgian Congo. Diamonds were cut and polished here in numbers only exceeded by Amsterdam. Here were brought in large quantities cotton from America, coffee from South America, sugar from the East and West Indies, wool from Australia and Argentina. (Rosenbaum Review, 10 March 1917)
Antwerps Proposed Free Port
Our Antwerp correspondent writes that even before the War, Belgium was considering the erection of a free port at Antwerp similar to those existing at Bremen and Hamburg. The fact that goods could be sent to these two last-named ports and stored in them free of all duties led to their becoming the chief continental markets for wool, coffee, cotton, etc.
There is a proposal now before the French Senate to establish a free port at Havre and Dunkirk. This has caused quite a stir in Belgian ship-ping circles. It is now proposed to establish a neutral tone at Antwerp where all goods could come in duty-free. This would significantly improve Antwerp's position as one of the foremost European porta of entry, but the project has not met the government's approval.
The Nautical Gazette, Vol. 98, 8 May 1920, p. 728.