Lisbon, Portugal Passenger Lists 1907-1950

 

War Refugees Lined the Rails of the Portuguese Ship Nyassa When She Docked in New York on 25 April 1941 with 816 Passengers from Lisbon.

War Refugees Lined the Rails of the Portuguese Ship Nyassa When She Docked in New York on 25 April 1941 with 816 Passengers from Lisbon. The Ship Was Built to Carry 475 Passengers. Photo by New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper (NYWTS). Library of Congress LCCN 2022633532. GGA Image ID # 2069aedb78

 

Passenger Lists available from the GG Archives from the Port of Lisbon, Portugal. Organized by Date of Departure, Steamship Line, Steamship or Ocean Liner, Class of Passengers, Route, and the Ship's Captain.

Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal and is the westernmost large city located in Europe, as well as its westernmost capital city and the only one along the Atlantic coast. It lies in the western Iberian Peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean and the Tagus River.

During World War II Lisbon was one of the very few neutral, open European Atlantic ports, a major gateway for refugees to the U.S. and a haven for spies. More than 100,000 refugees were able to flee Germany via Lisbon.

 

1907-05-04 Cruise SS Meteor

1907-05-04 Cruise SS Meteor Passenger List

Steamship Line: Hamburg Amerika Linie / Hamburg American Line (HAPAG)

Class of Passengers: Cruise Passengers (Class not Stated)

Date of Departure: 4 May 1907

Route: Genoa to Hamburg via Villafranca, Ajaccio, Algiers, Gibraltar, Tangier, Lisbon, and Dover

Commander: Captain Schwamberger

 

Passenger Manifest, SS König Wilhelm II, Hamburg America Line, September 1909, Boulogne to Rio de Janeiro

1909-09-20 SS Koning Wilhelm II Passenger List

Steamship Line: Hamburg Amerika Linie / Hamburg American Line (HAPAG)

Class of Passengers: First Class

Date of Departure: 20 September 1909

Route: Boulogne-sur-Mer to Rio de Janeiro and La Plata via Southampton, Vigo, and Lisbon

Commander: Captain P. Wiehr

 

30 January 1926 Cruise Passenger Manifest - SS Transylvania

1926-01-30 Cruise SS Transylvania Passenger List

Steamship Line: Anchor Steamship Line

Class of Passengers: Cruise

Date of Departure: 30 January 1926

Route: New York to Funchal (Madeira); Lisbon; Cadiz, Spain; Gibraltar; Algiers; Tunis, Carthage; Phaleron Bay (Athens); Constantinople; Haifa; Alexandria; Naples; Villefranche (Nice); Monte Carlo; Cherbourg; and return to New York.

Commander: Captain D. W. Bone

 

1929-07-02 SS Providence

1929-07-02 SS Providence Passenger List

Steamship Line: Fabre Line

Class of Passengers: First and Second Class

Date of Departure: 2 July 1929

Route: New York to Marseilles via Boston, Ponta Delgada, Lisbon, Naples, Palermo, Piraeus, Beirut, and Malta

Commander: Captain Laurent Vidal

 

1935-06-01 SS Asturias

1935-06-01 SS Asturias Passenger List

Steamship Line: Royal Mail Lines

Class of Passengers: First and Second Saloon

Date of Departure: circa 1 June 1935 (Note 1)

Route: Southampton to Buenos Aires via London (Tilbury), Cherbourg, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Spain (Coruña Galicia [A Coruña], Las Palmas, Vigo), Portugal (Leixöes, Lisbon), Madeira, St. Vincent, Cape Verde Island, Brazil (Bahia, Pernambuco [Recife], Rio de Janeiro, Santos, São Paulo), Montevideo, Uruguay

Commander: Captain A. Purvis

Note 1: Passenger List did not provide departure date from Southampton - Only the Arrival date (18 June 1935) for Buenos Aires Argentina

 

Front Cover, SS Montcalm Atlantic Isles and Seaboard Cruise from Tilbury Passenger List - 18 June 1938.

1938-06-18 SS Montcalm Passenger List

Steamship Line: Canadian Pacific Line

Class of Passengers: Cruise Members

Date of Departure: 18 June 1938

Route: Atlantic Isles and Seaboard Cruise from Tilbury. (London - Gibraltar - Casablanca - Madeira - Lisbon - London)

Commander: Captain D. Pert

 

Front Cover - 1938-07-14 SS Vulcania

1938-07-14 SS Vulcania Passenger List

Steamship Line: Italia Line

Class of Passengers: First Class

Date of Departure: 14 July 1938

Route: Trieste to New York via Dubrovnik, Patra, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, Gibraltar, Lisbon, and Azores

Commander: Captain William Lazzari

 

Passenger Manifest, Italia SS Conte Biancamano Sep 1950

1950-09-14 SS Conte Biancamano Passenger List

Steamship Line: Italia Line

Class of Passengers: Cabin

Date of Departure: 14 September 1950

Route: Genoa to New York via Naples, Gibraltar, and Lisbon

Commander: Captain Pasquale Pezzuto

 

Front Cover of a First Class Passenger List from the SS Manhattan of the United States Lines, Departing Friday, 12 July 1940 from Lisbon to New York.

1940-07-12 SS Manhattan Passenger List

Steamship Line: United States Lines

Class of Passengers: First Class

Date of Departure: 12 July 1940

Route: Lisbon to New York

Commander: Captain George V. Richardson, LCDR, USNR

Note: The SS Manhattan was transporting passengers fleeing Europe from Lisbon to New York City. These passengers capped a more or less continuous stream of Jewish migrants leaving various European countries after the Third Reich's rise to power in Germany.

 

 

 

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