Was your ancestor on the Principessa Mafalda?
Type a surname or a name. The search covers 1,186 people who were on board in October 1927, passengers and crew, and also finds similar spellings.
Type at least three letters.
No similar name on this list.
That does not mean they were not on board. The list has 1,186 of the roughly 1,259 people, and the names were written down as they were heard. Try another spelling, the surname alone or, for a married woman, her husband’s surname. And if your family says they came on the ship, tell us the story anyway.
If someone from your family was on board, whether they survived or not, I want to hear about it: where they came from, where they were going, what the family remembers, what happened next. A photograph, a letter or a document helps too. Nothing you write will be published without your permission. You can write in English.
There is no complete official list of who was on board: the embarkation list from Genoa has never been found. This list was compiled in 2005 by the blog Listado de pasajeros, kept by a passenger’s great-grandson, which does not say where the names came from. Before using it, we checked it against the documents we hold: all seven members of the Forner family who were on board are on it, in the right class and among the survivors.
The names were written down by ear, many of them in Spanish: José for Giuseppe, Juan for Giovanni. The search already looks for these equivalents. Married women usually appear under their husband’s surname, sometimes with their maiden name in brackets. The number after some names is the age.
The blog has 1,187 names; there are 1,186 here. Enrico Miotto, aged one, appeared twice: among the survivors, as Miotto, Enrique, and among the victims, as Maiotta, Enrico. He survived, and the duplicate entry has been removed.
Finding a name here is a lead, not proof. To get to the document, see where to look.