S.S. Weimar

The Weimar was built by Fairfield Company Limited in Glasgow for North German Lloyd of Bremen. She was launched on February 9th, 1891 and sailed her maiden voyage on from Bremen to Baltimore May 21st, 1891. Between 1891 and 1897 most of her voyages were from Bremen across the Atlantic to New York and Baltimore. In 1897, she began making trips to Australia and the Far East. Between 1903 and 1906, the vessel ran on the Naples to New York service. In 1908, Weimar was sold to Italian owned Lloyd del Pacifico and was renamed Santiago. Chilean owners purchased the Santiago in 1909 under the new name Armonia. In 1917, she became Canadian owned and was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the Mediterranean.

• Length: 126.49 m (415 ft)
• Beam: 14.63 m (48 ft)
• Propulsion: two masts, Single screw,
• Speed: 13 knots (14-15 Mph)
• Capacity: 4,996 tons
• Occupancy 49 1st class passengers, 38 2nd class passengers, and 1,907 3rd class passengers

Giacomo Bifano (Born: 1887) came to America on this vessel in 1903 from Villarosa, Italy. He was a barber by profession with his final stop being in Rochester, Pennsylvania.