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. 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 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
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
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 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 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
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
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
1950-05-26 SS Conte Biancamano Passenger List
Steamship Line: Italia – Società di Navigazione
Class of Passengers: First Class
Date of Departure: 26 May 1950
Route: New York to Genoa via Lisbon, Gibraltar, and Naples
Commander: Captain Luigi Gulinelli
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
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.
⚠️ About Accuracy in Historical Records Research Tip
Context. The GG Archives presents passenger lists as faithfully as possible to the original documents. While OCR is generally accurate, portions of these collections—especially image captions and some transcriptions—are typed by hand and may include typographical or spelling variations. The original manifests themselves also contained clerical inconsistencies (names recorded phonetically, mid-voyage corrections, etc.).
What this means for your research:
- Search variant spellings of names (e.g., “Schmidt/Schmitt/Smith,” “Giuseppe/Joseph”).
- Cross-reference with immigration cards, passport applications, naturalization files, city directories, and newspapers.
- Treat manifests as primary sources with historical quirks—use them alongside corroborating records.
- For place names, consider historical borders and language variants (e.g., Danzig/Gdańsk, Trieste/Trst).
How to cite. When quoting a name from a manifest, consider adding [sic] for obvious misspellings and include a note such as “spelling as printed in original passenger list.”
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