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=== Passenger ships === |
=== Passenger ships === |
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* [[MS Augustus|MS ''Augustus'']] (1932-1939) ''largest diesel-engined liner of her time'' |
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* [[SS Conte Biancamano|SS ''Conte Biancamano'']] (1932-1940, 1947-1960) |
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| width="80" | '''Built''' |
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* [[SS Conte di Savoia|SS ''Conte di Savoia'']] (1932-1940) |
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| width="160" | '''Name''' |
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* [[SS Conte Grande|SS ''Conte Grande'']] (1932-1940, 1947-1961) |
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| width="100" | '''Tonnage''' |
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* [[SS Conte Rosso|SS ''Conte Rosso'']] (1932-1940) |
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| width="350" | '''Shipyard''' |
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* [[SS Conte Verde|SS ''Conte Verde'']] (1932-1940) |
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| width="350" | '''Operated/Comments''' |
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* [[SS Duilio|SS ''Duilio'']] (1932-1937) ''transferred to [[Lloyd Triestino]]'' |
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* [[SS Giulio Cesare|SS ''Giulio Cesare'']] (1932-1937) ''transferred to [[Lloyd Triestino]]'' |
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| ? |
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* [[SS Rex|SS ''Rex'']] (1932-1940) |
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| [[MS Augustus|MS ''Augustus'']] |
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| align=Center | ? |
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* [[MS Saturnia|MS ''Saturnia'']] (1932-1940, 1946-1965) |
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| ? |
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* [[MS Vulcania|MS ''Vulcania'']] (1932-1940, 1947-1965) ''sold to [[Siosa Lines]]'' |
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| 1932-1939, largest diesel-engined liner of her time |
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* [[MS Neptunia|MS ''Neptunia'']] (1937-1940) |
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* [[MS Oceania|MS ''Oceania'']] (1937-1940) |
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| 1925 |
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* [[MS Giulio Cesare|MS ''Giulio Cesare'']] (1951-1973) |
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| [[SS Conte Biancamano|SS ''Conte Biancamano'']] |
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| align=Center | 24416 GT |
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* [[SS Andrea Doria|SS ''Andrea Doria'']] (1953-1956) |
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| William Beardmore & Co., Scotland |
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* [[SS Cristoforo Colombo|SS ''Cristoforo Colombo'']] (1954-1977) |
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| 1932-1940, 1947-1960 |
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* [[SS Leonardo da Vinci|SS ''Leonardo da Vinci'']] (1960-1978) |
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* [[T/S Michelangelo|SS ''Michelangelo'']] (1965-1975) |
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| 1932 |
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* [[T/S Raffaello|SS ''Raffaello'']] (1965-1975) |
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| [[SS Conte di Savoia|SS ''Conte di Savoia'']] |
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| align=Center | 48502 GT |
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* [[SS Guglielmo Marconi|SS ''Guglielmo Marconi'']] (1979-1980) |
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| Cantieri Riuniti del'Adriatico, Italy |
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| 1932-1940 |
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| 1927 |
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| [[SS Conte Grande|SS ''Conte Grande'']] |
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| align=Center | 25661 GT |
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| Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Italy |
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| 1932-1940, 1947-1961, Scrapped in 1961. |
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| 1927 |
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| [[SS Conte Rosso|SS ''Conte Rosso'']] |
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| align=Center | 25661 GT |
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| William Beardmore and Company, Scotland |
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| 1932-1940, Torpedoed and sunk 24 May 1941 |
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| ? |
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| [[SS Conte Verde|SS ''Conte Verde'']] |
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| align=Center | ? |
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| ? |
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| 1932-1940 |
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| ? |
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| [[SS Duilio|SS ''Duilio'']] |
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| align=Center | ? |
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| ? |
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| 1932-1937, transferred to [[Lloyd Triestino]] |
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| 1923 |
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| [[SS Giulio Cesare|SS ''Giulio Cesare'']] |
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| align=Center | 21657 GT |
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| Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd, UK |
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| 1932-1937, transferred to [[Lloyd Triestino]] |
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| 1931 |
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| [[SS Rex|SS ''Rex'']] |
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| align=Center | 51062 GT |
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| G. Ansaldo & Co., Italy |
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| 1932-1940, Destroyed by Allied bombers in 1944 |
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| ? |
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| [[SS Roma (1926)|SS ''Roma'']] |
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| align=Center | ? |
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| ? |
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| 1932-1939 |
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| ? |
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| [[MS Saturnia|MS ''Saturnia'']] |
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| align=Center | ? |
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| ? |
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| 1932-1940, 1946-1965 |
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| 1926 |
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| [[MS Vulcania|MS ''Vulcania'']] |
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| align=Center | 23970 GT |
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| Cantiere Navale Triestino, Italy |
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| 1932-1940, 1947-1965, sold to [[Siosa Lines]] |
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| ? |
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| [[MS Neptunia|MS ''Neptunia'']] |
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| align=Center | ? |
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| ? |
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| 1937-1940 |
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| ? |
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| [[MS Oceania|MS ''Oceania'']] |
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| align=Center | ? |
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| ? |
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| 1937-1940 |
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| ? |
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| [[MS Giulio Cesare|MS ''Giulio Cesare'']] |
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| align=Center | ? |
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| ? |
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| 1951-1973 |
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| ? |
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| [[MS Augustus (1952)|MS ''Augustus'']] |
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| align=Center | ? |
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| ? |
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| 1952-1976 |
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| 1951 |
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| [[SS Andrea Doria|SS ''Andrea Doria'']] |
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| align=Center | 29083 GT |
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| Ansaldo Shipyards, Italy |
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| 1953-1956, Capsized and sank on July 25, 1956 after colliding with the MS Stockholm |
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| 1953 |
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| [[SS Cristoforo Colombo|SS ''Cristoforo Colombo'']] |
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| align=Center | 29191 GT |
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| Ansaldo Shipyards, Italy |
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| 1954-1977, Scrapped 1982 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
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| 1960 |
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| [[SS Leonardo da Vinci|SS ''Leonardo da Vinci'']] |
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| align=Center | 33340 GT |
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| Ansaldo Shipyards, Italy |
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| 1960-1978, burned 1980, scrapped 1982 |
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| 1965 |
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| [[T/S Michelangelo|SS ''Michelangelo'']] |
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| align=Center | 45911 GT |
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| Ansaldo Shipyards, Italy |
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| 1965-1975, Scrapped 1991 |
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| 1965 |
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| [[T/S Raffaello|SS ''Raffaello'']] |
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| align=Center | 45933 GT |
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| Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Italy |
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| 1965-1975 |
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| 1963 |
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| [[SS Galileo Galilei|SS ''Galileo Galilei'']] |
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| align=Center | 27888 GT |
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| Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico, Italy |
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| 1979, Sunk 21 May 1999 |
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| ? |
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| [[SS Guglielmo Marconi|SS ''Guglielmo Marconi'']] |
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| align=Center | ? |
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| ? |
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| 1979-1980 |
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=== Container ships === |
=== Container ships === |
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* Cristoforo Colombo (built 1989) |
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* Amerigo Vespucci (built 1989) |
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| width="80" | '''Built''' |
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* Cielo di San Francisco (built 1998) |
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| width="160" | '''Name''' |
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* Cielo del Canada (built 1998) |
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| width="100" | '''Tonnage''' |
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* Cielo d'America (built 2002) |
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| width="100" | '''Capacity''' |
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* Cielo d'Europa (built 2002) |
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| width="250" | '''Shipyard''' |
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* S. Caboto (built 1991) |
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| width="100" | '''IMO number''' |
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* California (built 1992) |
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| width="100" | '''Call sign''' |
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* Cielo del Caribe (built 2000) |
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| width="100" | '''Flag''' |
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* Cielo del Cile (built 1994) |
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| width="350" | '''Status/Comments''' |
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* Dollar Trader (built 1997) |
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| 1989 |
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| ''Cristoforo Colombo'' |
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| align=Center | 32630 GT |
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| align=Center | 2200 TEU |
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| ? |
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| align=Center | 8618449 |
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| align=Center | ICYS |
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| align=Center | Italy |
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| 1989 |
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| ''Amerigo Vespucci'' |
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| align=Center | 32630 GT |
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| align=Center | 2200 TEU |
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| Fincantieri-Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A., Italy |
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| align=Center | 8618451 |
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| align=Center | ICBA |
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| align=Center | Italy |
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| 1991 |
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| ''S. Caboto'' |
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| align=Center | 15783 GT |
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| align=Center | 1100 TEU |
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| ? |
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| align=Center | 8618413 |
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| align=Center | ICMS |
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| align=Center | Italy |
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| 1992 |
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| ''California'' |
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| align=Center | 17123 GT |
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| align=Center | 1200 TEU |
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| Naikai Zosen Corp., Japan |
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| align=Center | 8901743 |
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| align=Center | ICFC |
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| align=Center | Italy |
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| 1994 |
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| ''Cielo del Cile'' |
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| align=Center | ? |
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| align=Center | 1500 TEU |
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| ? |
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| align=Center | 9046253 |
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| align=Center | ELVB3 |
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| align=Center | Liberia |
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| 1997 |
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| ''Dollart Trader'' |
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| align=Center | 16165 GT |
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| align=Center | 1600 TEU |
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| MTW Schiffswerft GmbH, Germany |
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| align=Center | 9162356 |
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| align=Center | V2OD5 |
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| align=Center | Antigua & Barbuda |
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| 1998 |
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| ''Cielo di San Francisco'' |
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| align=Center | 25359 GT |
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| align=Center | 2500 TEU |
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| ? |
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| align=Center | 9153408 |
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| align=Center | DGZO |
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| align=Center | Germany |
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| 1998 |
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| ''Cielo del Canada'' |
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| align=Center | 25361 GT |
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| align=Center | 2500 TEU |
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| Meeres-Technik-Wismar, Germany |
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| align=Center | 9138290 |
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| align=Center | V2PE2 |
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| align=Center | Antigua & Barbuda |
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| 2000 |
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| ''Cielo del Caribe'' |
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| align=Center | 13066 GT |
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| align=Center | 1300 TEU |
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| Flensburger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft MbH & Co. KG, Germany |
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| align=Center | 9202053 |
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| align=Center | ELXN2 |
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| align=Center | Liberia |
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| 2002 |
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| ''Cielo d'America'' |
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| align=Center | 23540 GT |
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| align=Center | 2500 TEU |
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| Stocznia Gdansk S.A., Poland |
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| align=Center | 9146302 |
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| align=Center | IBJH |
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| align=Center | Italy |
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| 2002 |
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| ''Cielo d'Europa'' |
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| align=Center | 25535 GT |
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| align=Center | 2500 TEU |
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| Thyssen Nordseewerke GmbH, Germany |
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| align=Center | 9236664 |
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| align=Center | ICCP |
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| align=Center | Italy |
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* GT = Gross Tonnage / BRT / BRZ |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
Revision as of 12:53, 9 February 2008
The Italian Line or Italia Line, also known as the Società di navigazione Italia, was a passenger shipping line that operated regular transatlantic service between Italy and the United States, as well as Italy and South America. During the 1970s the company was also heavily involved in cruising, later it concentrated on freight traffic.
History
The Società di navigazione Italia was started in 1932 as Italia Flotte Riunite (United Fleets Italy), when the Italian government encouraged the fusion of Genoa-based Navigazione Generale Italiana, Turin-based Lloyd Sabaudo, and Trieste-based Cosulich STN, which was previously an Austro-Hungaric company.
The new company acquired the Cosulich-owned MS Saturnia and MS Vulcania, the Lloyd Sabaudo-owned SS Conte Rosso, SS Conte Biancamano and SS Conte Grande and the NGI-owned SS Giulio Cesare, SS Duilio, SS Roma and MS Augustus. The same year two previously commissioned ocean liners were delivered to the company: SS Rex, who captured the Blue Riband in 1933, and SS Conte di Savoia.
During World War II, the company lost many of its ships, including the Rex and the Conte di Savoia. Other vessels were captured by the United States and converted into troopships; four of them survived the war: SS Conte Biancamano, SS Conte Grande, SS Saturnia and SS Vulcania.
The service was resumed only in 1947, under the company's new name Società di navigazione Italia. In addition to the four vessels returned by United States, two new vessels, SS Andrea Doria and SS Cristoforo Colombo were commissioned in 1953 and 1954, respectively, to show the world that the country had recovered from the war and to re-establish the nation's pride. However the Andrea Doria sunk only three years after she was commissioned, in 1956. The company was swift to order a replacement for its sunken flagship, and the new SS Leonardo da Vinci was delivered in 1960. The ship was based on the same design as Andrea Doria, but enlargened and featured many technical innovations.
In the late 1950's the arrival of the jet aircraft had not yet had a notable effect on passenger numbers in the United States - Mediterranean traffic and the Italian Line decided to order another pair of new ships for the trade. Plans for these were already being made in 1958, but the construction took longer than expected and the ships weren't completeted until 1965, as TS Michelangelo and TS Raffaello. Unfortunately the ships were built too late to be truly profitable on the North Atlantic route. Although planned from the start for alternative cruising, the ships had several design features that made their use as cruise ships very difficult.
Italian Line kept operating the Transatlantic service despite huge losses until 1976, when the Leonardo da Vinci was the last passenger liner of the company to cross the Atlantic. The Michelangelo and Raffaello had already been withdrawn the previous year. The Leonardo da Vinci was used as a cruise ship in 1977-1978, but withdrawn due to high fuel costs. Between 1979 and 1980 the Italian Line operated two ex-Lloyd Triestino liners SS Galileo Galilei and SS Guglielmo Marconi as a cruise ships, but the venture proved unprofitable.
Discouraged by the lack of success, Italian Line decided to concentrate on freight traffic. Italian Line operated its principal container services between the Mediterranean, West Coast North America and Central and South America. It carried about 180,000 teus in 2001. In August 2002 Italian Line was acquired by CP Ships. In July 2003 a new Company logo was designed with very carefull changes keeping recognition of the old one. In 2005 the Italia Lines brand was replacecd by the CP Ships brand following CP's one brand strategy. CP Ships itself was bought out in late 2005 by TUI AG and merged in mid 2006 in the Hapag-Lloyd organization.
International identifiers
SCAC Code: ITAU
BIC Code (Container prefixes): ITAU
Vessels
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Passenger ships
Built | Name | Tonnage | Shipyard | Operated/Comments |
? | MS Augustus | ? | ? | 1932-1939, largest diesel-engined liner of her time |
1925 | SS Conte Biancamano | 24416 GT | William Beardmore & Co., Scotland | 1932-1940, 1947-1960 |
1932 | SS Conte di Savoia | 48502 GT | Cantieri Riuniti del'Adriatico, Italy | 1932-1940 |
1927 | SS Conte Grande | 25661 GT | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Italy | 1932-1940, 1947-1961, Scrapped in 1961. |
1927 | SS Conte Rosso | 25661 GT | William Beardmore and Company, Scotland | 1932-1940, Torpedoed and sunk 24 May 1941 |
? | SS Conte Verde | ? | ? | 1932-1940 |
? | SS Duilio | ? | ? | 1932-1937, transferred to Lloyd Triestino |
1923 | SS Giulio Cesare | 21657 GT | Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd, UK | 1932-1937, transferred to Lloyd Triestino |
1931 | SS Rex | 51062 GT | G. Ansaldo & Co., Italy | 1932-1940, Destroyed by Allied bombers in 1944 |
? | SS Roma | ? | ? | 1932-1939 |
? | MS Saturnia | ? | ? | 1932-1940, 1946-1965 |
1926 | MS Vulcania | 23970 GT | Cantiere Navale Triestino, Italy | 1932-1940, 1947-1965, sold to Siosa Lines |
? | MS Neptunia | ? | ? | 1937-1940 |
? | MS Oceania | ? | ? | 1937-1940 |
? | MS Giulio Cesare | ? | ? | 1951-1973 |
? | MS Augustus | ? | ? | 1952-1976 |
1951 | SS Andrea Doria | 29083 GT | Ansaldo Shipyards, Italy | 1953-1956, Capsized and sank on July 25, 1956 after colliding with the MS Stockholm |
1953 | SS Cristoforo Colombo | 29191 GT | Ansaldo Shipyards, Italy | 1954-1977, Scrapped 1982 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
1960 | SS Leonardo da Vinci | 33340 GT | Ansaldo Shipyards, Italy | 1960-1978, burned 1980, scrapped 1982 |
1965 | SS Michelangelo | 45911 GT | Ansaldo Shipyards, Italy | 1965-1975, Scrapped 1991 |
1965 | SS Raffaello | 45933 GT | Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Italy | 1965-1975 |
1963 | SS Galileo Galilei | 27888 GT | Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico, Italy | 1979, Sunk 21 May 1999 |
? | SS Guglielmo Marconi | ? | ? | 1979-1980 |
Container ships
Built | Name | Tonnage | Capacity | Shipyard | IMO number | Call sign | Flag | Status/Comments |
1989 | Cristoforo Colombo | 32630 GT | 2200 TEU | ? | 8618449 | ICYS | Italy | |
1989 | Amerigo Vespucci | 32630 GT | 2200 TEU | Fincantieri-Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A., Italy | 8618451 | ICBA | Italy | |
1991 | S. Caboto | 15783 GT | 1100 TEU | ? | 8618413 | ICMS | Italy | |
1992 | California | 17123 GT | 1200 TEU | Naikai Zosen Corp., Japan | 8901743 | ICFC | Italy | |
1994 | Cielo del Cile | ? | 1500 TEU | ? | 9046253 | ELVB3 | Liberia | |
1997 | Dollart Trader | 16165 GT | 1600 TEU | MTW Schiffswerft GmbH, Germany | 9162356 | V2OD5 | Antigua & Barbuda | |
1998 | Cielo di San Francisco | 25359 GT | 2500 TEU | ? | 9153408 | DGZO | Germany | |
1998 | Cielo del Canada | 25361 GT | 2500 TEU | Meeres-Technik-Wismar, Germany | 9138290 | V2PE2 | Antigua & Barbuda | |
2000 | Cielo del Caribe | 13066 GT | 1300 TEU | Flensburger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft MbH & Co. KG, Germany | 9202053 | ELXN2 | Liberia | |
2002 | Cielo d'America | 23540 GT | 2500 TEU | Stocznia Gdansk S.A., Poland | 9146302 | IBJH | Italy | |
2002 | Cielo d'Europa | 25535 GT | 2500 TEU | Thyssen Nordseewerke GmbH, Germany | 9236664 | ICCP | Italy |
- GT = Gross Tonnage / BRT / BRZ
See also
References
- Bureau International des Containers (Container prefix codes, now linking Italia Lines units to Hapag-Lloyd due to the merger)
- CP Ships: press release - CP Ships Completes Acquisition of Italia Di Navigazione, 06. August 2002
- CP Ships: Press release - CP Ships Adopts a Single Brand, 28. April 2005
- Italia Lines: Official website - page offline - please refer to History of CP Ships