Italian Line Fleet List

Fleet List of the Italian Line Showing Ownership, Nationality, Name of Ship, Year Placed in Service, and Gross Tonnage. Gross tonnage equals cubic feet of all enclosed space divided by 100. Notations Regarding the Ship (if any), Such as Previous Name or Renaming, are shown after the Gross Tonnage.

"ITALIA" LINE

Italian Line and from 1992 Italia Line, whose official name was Italia di Navigazione S.p.A.

"Italia" — Flotte Riunite Cosulich-Lloyd Sabaudo-Navigazione Generale Italiana

"Italia" Societa per Azioni di Navigazione

(Italian)

Formed in January 1932 by the consolidation of Cosulich, Lloyd Sabaudo, and Navigazione Generale Italiana Lines.

The company was founded in 1932 through a merger of the Genoa-based Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI), the Turin-based Lloyd Sabaudo, and the Trieste-based Cosulich STN lines, encouraged by the Italian government. The new company acquired the Cosulich-owned ships Saturnia and Vulcania, the Lloyd Sabaudo-owned Conte Rosso, Conte Biancamano, and Conte Grande, and the NGI-owned Giulio Cesare, Duilio, Roma, and Augustus. The same year, two previously ordered ocean liners were delivered to the company: Rex, which won the Blue Riband in 1933, and Conte di Savoia.

1. Alessandro Volta (1954) 8,086
2. Amerigo Vespucci (1949) 9,774
3. Andrea Doria (1953) 29,082
4. Antonio Pacinotti (1954) 8,086
5. Antoniotto Usodimare (1942) 9,715
6. Augustus (1927) 32,650
7. Augustus (1952) 27,226
8. Barbarigo (1930) 5,293
9. Birmania (1930) 5,305
10. Calabria (1922) 9,515
11. Conte Biancamano (1925) 24,416
12. Conte Grande (1927) 25,661
13. Conte Rosso (1922) 17,048
14. Conte Verde (1923) 18,765
15. Cristoforo Colombo (1953) 29,083
16. Duilio (1923) 24,281
17. Esquilmo (1925) 8,657
18. Galileo Ferraris (1953) 8,101
19. Giulio Cesare (1920) 21,657
20. Giulio Cesare (1951) 27,694
21. Leonardo da Vinci (1960) 30,500
22. Marco Polo (1942) 8,949
23. Neptunia (1932) 19,475
24. Oceania (1932) 19,507
25. Orazio (1927) 11,669
26. Paolo Toscanelli (1948) 9,004
27. Principessa Giovanna (1923) 8,556
28. Principessa Maria (1923) 8,539
29. Remo (1927) 9,780
30. Rex (1932) 51,062
31. Roma (1926) 32,583
32. Romolo (1926) 9,780
33. San Giorgio (1923) 8,959
34. Sardegna (1923) 11,452
35. Saturnia (1927) 23,940
36. Sebastiano Caboto (1947) 8,967
37. Sicilia (1923) 9,646
38. Toscana (1923) 9,442
39. Ugolino Vivaldi (1947) 8,914
40. Viminale (1925) 8,657
41. Virgilio (1927) 11,718
42. Vulcania (1928) 24,496

Smith, Eugene W., Passenger Ships of the World: Past and Present, Boston: George H. Dean Company, 1963.