Perhaps one of the worst case scenarios occurred to the Armenian and Greek refugees of the passenger vessel S.S. Acropolis. The ship left Piraeus on November 2, 1922, for the island of Syros. After making port it proceeded for Patras and arrived there on November 10. At Patras two hundred refugees from Constantinople were urged to board. Horace Stiles, the US Consul in Patras, warned the Greek authorities that the immigration quota pertaining to Armenians and Greeks for that year had already expired. The ship spent thirty-four days docked in Patras due to a crew strike and lack of provisions for the journey. Finally, on December 13, the ship set out for Valletta, Malta with seventy of the refugees on board, in addition to three hundred first- and second-class passengers. The fuel was entirely consumed during the journey to Malta and the crew started to burn wood from the ship itself for additional fuel. The Acropolis reached Malta on December 18 and stocked up on coal and provisions. While there the ship’s captain deserted and the ship’s crew continued the journey to New York, making two more mandatory stops for fuel in Algiers and the Azores. During this journey, two babies were born on board.