Transatlantic voyages, 1900-1914

Passenger voyages across the North Atlantic were researched for the book, The Business of Transatlantic Migration, between Europe and the United States, 1900-1914, and related articles.

Data compiled include:

a) US arrival and departure dates for regularly scheduled passenger liners between New York, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia and European ports, from July 1899 through June 1914.

b) passenger totals in first, second and third class in each direction, along with vessel and shipping line data.

During 1900-14, the four ports of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore received 89% of all immigrants to the United States from anywhere, 93% of all U.S. immigrants from Europe, and about 60% of the entire transatlantic migration flow (across the North and South Atlantic) then. (Keeling, “Business of Transatlantic Migration,” pp. 272-73, 281.)

KEY FINDINGS re 1900-14 Voyages