Saturnin Daniel Langiewicz
This website is dedicated to my
great-grandfather, Saturnin Daniel Langiewicz. He was born in Ciemniewko,
Poland in 1877. He sailed on the vessel Weimar from Bremen and arrived in the USA on
February 11, 1904 . His uncle was Marian Langiewicz, leader of the
Polish Insurrection of 1863. He became a USA citizen in 1914. He was the father of
four children and husband to Stanislawa (nee Pogonski). A violinist & professional
photographer--he went to night school in Erie, Pennsylvania to improve his English. He
died in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Detroit. His name is
on the Wall of Honor at Ellis Island.
November 29,1877-November 28,1947
WEIMAR
The "Weimar" was a 4,996 gross ton ship, built for North German Lloyd of Bremen
by
Fairfield Co Ltd, Glasgow in 1891. Her details were - length 415ft x beam 48ft, one
funnel,
two masts, steel construction, single screw and a speed of 13 knots. There was
accommodation for 49-1st, 38-2nd and 1,907-3rd class passengers. Launched on 9/2/1891,
she started her maiden Bremen - Baltimore voyage on 21/5/1891. On 17/12/1891 she
commenced her first Bremen - New York - Baltimore sailing and on 2/6/1897 started her
first Bremen - Suez - Australia voyage. On 7/2/1900 she commenced the first of two round
voyages between Bremen, Suez and the Far East and on 25/2/1903 started Naples - New
York sailings. On 23/9/1905 she started on the Bremen - South America service. Her last
Naples - New York voyage started 11/5/1906 (8 round voyages), last Bremen - Australia on
13/6/1906 (9 round voyages), and last Bremen - Baltimore on 11/5/1907 (57 round voyages
on the North Atlantic). In 1908 she was sold to the Italian owned Lloyd del Pacifico and
was
renamed "Santiago", and in 1909 she went to Chilean owners and was renamed
"Armonia". In 1917 she became Canadian owned and was torpedoed and sunk by a
German submarine near Porquerolles Island in the Mediterranean on 15/3/1918. [North
Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.2, p.555-6] - [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch
- 14 May 1998]
The steamship WEIMAR was built for
Norddeutscher Lloyd by Fairfield Shipbuilding and
Engineering Co Ltd, Glasgow (ship #355), and launched on 9 February 1891. 4,996 tons;
131,4 x 14,63 meters (length x breadth); straight bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; steel
construction,
screw propulsion, triple-expansion engines, service speed 13 knots; accommodation for 49
passengers in 1st class, 38 in 2nd class, and 1,900 in steerage; crew of 105. 21 May 1891,
maiden voyage, Bremen-Baltimore. 17 December 1891, first voyage, Bremen-New
York-Baltimore. Between 2 June 1897 and 13 June 1906, 9 roundtrip voyages,
Bremen-Suez Canal-Australia. 7 February 1900, first voyage, Bremen-Suez Canal-Far East
(2 roundtrip voyages). Between 25 February 1903 and 11 May 1906, 8 roundtrip voyages,
Naples-New York. 24 January 1904, sailed with a cargo of relief supplies for the city of
Aalesund, which had been largely destroyed by fire. 11 May 1907, last voyage,
Bremen-Baltimore. 1908, with the GERA, sold to Lloyd del Pacifico (Italian), and renamed
SANTIAGO (registered at Savona), for service on the West Coast of South America. 1909,
sold to J. J. MacAuliffe, Valparaiso, and renamed ARMONIA. 1915, sold to R. L. Smith,
Montreal. 1917, sold to Canada Steamship Lines Ltd, Montreal. 15 March 1918, bound
from Genoa to New York in ballast, torpedoed, shelled and sunk by German UB-67 38
miles southeast of Porquerolles Island, 15 miles southeast of Toulon, in lat 42.33 N, lon
06.46 E [Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship
Mails, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994), pp. 145-146 (photograph); Noel
Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger
Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands:
Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), pp. 555-556]. Also pictured in Michael J. Anuta,
Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 344, courtesy
of the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970. - [Posted to the
Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 6 July 1998]
Photo from the book:Ships of our
Ancestors by Michael J. Anuta 1983 pg.344
