S.S. EMS


A North German Lloyd vessel built by John Elder & Company in Glasgow in 1884, the S.S. EMS was a smaller passenger vessel. She was launched on February 27th, 1884 and sailed from Bremen to Southampton to New York on her maiden voyage on June 4th, 1884. Her last Bremen-New York run was on March 14th, 1896. In April of 1896 she was transferred to the Genoa-Naples-New York service until 1900. In 1901, she was sold to Elmer Dempster Line and was renamed Lake Simcoe and ran on the Liverpool-Quebec-Montreal-St. John NB service. She was scrapped in Genoa in 1905.

Length: 131 m (429 ft 8 in)
Beam: 14.32 m (47 ft)
Propulsion: four masts, Single screw,
Speed: 16 knots (18-19 Mph)
Capacity: 4,730 tons
Occupancy 125 1st class passengers, 130 2nd class passengers, and 1,000 3rd class passengers
Ancestors Traveled
Giuseppe Cancilla (Born: 1887) came to America on this vessel in 1900 with his final destination being Johnstown, Pennsylvania where his Father Pasquale Cancilla was awaiting his arrival.