Passenger motorship, Italia Società di Navigazione, Genoa.
Shipyard | Cantiere Navale Triestino, Monfalcone |
Tonnage | 24,469 tons |
Length | 192.05 m |
Breadth | 24.31 m |
Motor system | installed in 1935: 2 FIAT diesel motors |
Manufacturer | FIAT Grandi Motori, Turin |
Power | 28,000 HP |
Cruising speed | 21 knots |
Power | 20,000 HP |
Cruising speed | 19 knots |
Passengers | 360 (I), 388 (II), 563 (III). |
1926 | 18 December, launched for Cosulich Società Triestina di Navigazione |
1928 | 19 December, maiden voyage Trieste – Venice – Patras – Palermo – Naples – Lisbon - New York |
1932 | 9 January, first voyage Trieste - New York after the transfer to Italia Flotte Riunite |
1935 | 18 February, makes eight voyages Naples – Massawa - Mogadishu when carrying troops and colonists, being commandeered by Italian government |
1935 | 12 May, given new engines and renovated at the shipyard in Monfalcone |
1940 | 26 April, voyage Trieste - Buenos Aires |
1941 | 16 September, leaves Taranto to Northern Africa carrying troops, being commandeered by Italian Government |
1942 | March, makes three repatriation missions of Italian civilian people from Eastern Africa under the aegis of the International Red Cross via Gibraltar, Cape Verde Islands, Port Elizabeth |
1943 | 17 September, commandeered by German Navy, then laid up in Venice |
1945 | 21 September, commandeered by U.S. Maritime Commission to repatriate troops from Naples to New York |
1946 | 30 October, returned to the Italian Government |
1947 | 25 July, voyage Genoa – Naples – Barcelona – Lisbon - Rio de Janeiro – Santos – Montevideo - Buenos Aires |
1947 | 4 September, returns on duty on the course Genoa – Naples – Palermo – Lisbon – Halifax - New York |
1965 | 2 November, sold to Sicula Oceanica S.A. (Palermo) belonging to Grimaldi Brothers, renamed Caribia |
1966 | 28 February, first voyage Southampton - Le Havre – Vigo – Lisbon – Madera – Kingston – Curaçao - La Guaira – Trinidad – Granada – Barbados – Martinique – Guadalupe - Antigua. Then assigned to cruises in the Mediterranean Sea |
1972 | 23 September, aground at Cannes, rescued and laid up La Spezia |
1973 | 18 September, arrives to Barcelona to be demolished |
1974 | 15 March, resold to a Taiwanese demolition company, the ship leaves Barcelona to Kaohsiung (Taiwan), where it sinks in the bay on 27 July. |
Architects and interior designers
Arduino Berlam, Adolfo Coppedè, H.H. Martyn & Co., Enrico Monti, Gaetano Moretti, Gustavo Pulitzer Finali.
Artists
Glauco Cambon, Carlo Coppedè, Pietro Chiesa, Marcello Claris, Eligio Finazzer Floris, Ugo Flumiani, Antonio Maraini, Marcello Mascherini, Plinio Nomellini, Argio Orell, Giulio Rosso, Edgardo Sambo, Carlo Siviero.
Works by Mascherini: