The SS Dresden was a ship from the North German Lloyd, especialy designed for the immigrant transportation. It was contracted by the Argentine Government of those days (Juarez Celman administration - Quirno Costa. Minister of Foreign Affair) for bringring immigrants in order to populate the nation.
The goodbye at the Queenstown port was great. Hundreds of people in the streets and houses of the creek, shaking their handkerchiefs, plenty of joy and wishing good auguries to the immigrants.
On board, an enthusiastic toast, was given in honor to the Argentine Republic (the Promised Land), and to the Argentine Commissioner of the Immigration Department, Mr. Samuel Navarro. From the wharf, strongs shouts of joy of the immigrants could be listened.
During those days, Mr. Buckley O'Meara, the Argentine Immigration Agent in Dublin, sent a letter to anglo-parlant's comunity newspaper, The Standard, in order to draw the attention of estancieros and employers of labour to the departure from Ireland to Buenos Ayres in the SS Dresden, of about 250 irish families, composed of the best of the agricultural, labourin and artisan classes.
He added that those immigrants have "all been chosen with great care regarding characters and suitablility to emigrate to the Republic. To a colony each family would be a cheap acquisition at 100 pounds each".
