Passenger motorship, Italia Società di Navigazione, Genoa.
Shipyard | Cantiere Navale Triestino, Monfalcone |
Tonnage | 24,470 tons |
Length | 192.05 m |
Breadth | 24.31 m |
Motor system installed in 1935 | 2 diesel motors C.R.D.A. Sulzer |
Manufacturer | Fabbrica Macchine Sant’Andrea, Trieste, under license by Sulzer, Winterthur |
Power | 28,000 HP |
Cruising speed | 21 knots |
Power | 20,000 HP |
Cruising speed | 19 knots |
Passengers | 347 (I), 407 (II), 559 (III). |
1925 | 29 December, launched for Cosulich Società Triestina di Navigazione |
1927 | 21 September, maiden voyage Trieste – Venice – Patras – Palermo – Barcelona - Rio de Janeiro – Santos – Montevideo - Buenos Aires |
1928 | 1 February, firts voyage Trieste – Patras – Palermo – Gibraltar - New York |
1932 | 2 January, first voyage Trieste - New York after the transfer to Italia Flotte Riunite |
1935 | 8 May, the ship makes eight voyages Naples – Massawa - Mogadishu with troops, being commandeered by Italian government |
1935-1936 | Given new engines and renovated at cantiere navale in Monfalcone; it leaves the shipyard in August 1936 |
1942 | March, the ship makes three repatriation missions of civilian people from Eastern Africa under the aegis of the International Red Cross via Gibraltar, Cape Verde Islands, Port Elizabeth |
1943 | 8 September, the ship sails from Trieste to Venice, Brindisi, Taranto, Algiers, Gibraltar, Southampton and goes under the control of the British War Shipping Organization |
1945 | 17 January, delivered into the U.S. War Department and transformed into hospital ship for U.S. Army, renamed Frances Y. Slanger |
1946 | 30 October, returned to Italian government, renamed Saturnia |
1946 | 14 December, arrival to Genoa, where undergoes repair works |
1947 | 20 January, the ship takes up its duty on the course Genoa – Naples – Palermo – Lisbon – Halifax - New York |
1965 | September, sold for demolition to Terrestre Marittima, La Spezia. |
Architects and interior designers
Arduino Berlam, Adolfo e Gino Coppedè, Marsh John & Cribb, Portois & Fix, Gustavo Pulitzer Finali.
Artists
Glauco Cambon, Carlo Coppedè, Marcello Claris, Adolfo De Carolis, Eligio Finazzer Floris, Ugo Flumiani, Giovanni Mayer, Marcello Mascherini, Plinio Nomellini, Eddy Pessauro, Giò Ponti, Edgardo Sambo, Carlo Siviero.
Works by Mascherini: