S.S. Alesia
A small vessel built by Thomas Royden and Sons in Liverpool in 1882 for the Fabre line, the S.S. Alesia was launched and made her maiden voyage in June of the same year under the French flag. Most of the ship service was between Mediterranean ports and New York. In September of 1887, she was quarantined after arriving in New York for an outbreak of Chloera were 25 people parished from the disease by October that same year. On May 29th 1899 as she arrived in Algiers, Algiera her cargo of Sulphur was on fire. She was sold for scrap in late 1899.
• Length: 99.97 m (328 ft)
• Beam: 12.29 m (40 ft 4 in)
• Propulsion: single screw steam engine
• Speed: 11 knots (12-13 Mph)
• Capacity: 2,790tons
• Occupancy: 18 1st class and 1,000 3rd class passengers
Ancestors Traveled
Giacomo Pecoraro (Born: 1880) was on this vessel in the year 1899 immigrating from Palermo, Italy to reunite with his father Rosario in America.