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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.

Passenger Manifest, Red Star Line Friesland, Cabin Passengers 1892

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

Passenger Manifest, Red Star Line Friesland, Cabin Passengers 1895

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

Passenger Manifest, Red Star Line SS Vaderland, 1901, Antwerp to New York (Front Cover)

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

Front Cover of the Cabin Class Passenger List from the RMS Vaderland of the Red Star Line, Departing Saturday, 10 September 1904 from Antwerp for New York via Dover

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

Passenger Manifest, Red Star Line SS Finland, 1906, Antwerp to New York

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

Passenger Manifest, Red Star Line SS Zeeland 1908, Antwerp to New York

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

Front Cover, SS Zeeland Passenger List - 26 June 1924

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

Front Cover, SS Zeeland Passenger List - 30 June 1925

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

Front Cover, SS Belgenland Passenger List - 26 June 1926

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

Passenger Manifest, Canadian Pacific SS Melita, Cabin Passengers, 1926

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

Passenger Manifest, Red Star Line SS Pennland 1926 Antwerp to Halifax and New York

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

Front Cover, SS Pennland Passenger List - 27 July 1928

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

Front Cover, SS Belgenland Passenger List - 31 August 1928

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

Passenger Manifest, Red Star Line SS Arabic, 1929 - Antwerp to Halifax NS and New York

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

Front Cover, SS Lapland Passenger List - 2 November 1929

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

Front Cover, RMS Belgenland Passenger List - 8 August 1930

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

Front Cover, SS Lapland Passenger List - 22 August 1930

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

Front Cover, Red Star Line SS Pennland Cabin Class Passenger List - 26 August 1932.

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

Front Cover, SS Pennland Passenger List - 24 August 1934

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

Front Cover, Red Star Line SS Pennland Cabin Class Passenger List - 5 September 1936.

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.

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.