SS Conte di Savoia Archival Collection
Conte di Savoia (1932) Italia Line
Built by Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriático, Trieste, Italy. Tonnage: 48,502. Dimensions: 785' x 96' (814' o.l.). Propulsion: Quadruple-screw, 28 knots. Steam turbines. Masts and Funnels: Two masts and two funnels. Diameter of funnels 43' x 23'. Additional Features: Equipped with three gyro-stabilizers to minimize her motion in a rough sea. Launched: October 28, 1931. Maiden Voyage: Genoa-New York, November 30, 1932. Speed Records: Made the Genoa-New York crossing frequently in 6 1/2 days. However, she was never quite as fast as her running mate the Rex. Fate: Sunk by aircraft in shallow water near Venice, September 11, 1943. Refloated in October 1945. For a time it was thought she would be rebuilt. This contemplated work never took place, and in 1950 was broken up for scrap at Monfalcone, Italy. Running mate: Rex.
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1937-03-06 SS Conte Di Savoia Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Italian Line
- Class of Passengers: First Class
- Date of Departure: 6 March 1937
- Route: New York to Gibraltar, Naples, Villefranche, and Genoa
- Commander: Captain Antonio Lena
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1938-02-15 Italian Line Third Class Rates
12- Page brochure from the Italian Line provides a lot of information for passengers, third-class passage rates, and immigration laws. Third-class Interiors and ship photographs complete this very informative brochure. Featured Ships: Rex, Roma, Saturnia, Vulcania, and Conte di Savoia.
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Sailing Schedule, New York to Europe, from 24 September 1935 to 8 February 1936. Ships Included the Conte di Savoia, Rex, Roma, and Vulcania. SS Rex Passenger List, 13 September 1935. GGA Image ID # 1ee5b7cb0f
Principal Connections of the Italia Line, Cosulich Line, and Lloyd Triestino, from Genoa to Egypt and Genoa to India, from 18 September 1935 to 29 December 1935. Connecting Ships Included the Esperia and Victoria. Transatlantic Ships Included the Conte di Savoia and Rex. SS Rex Passenger List, 13 September 1935. GGA Image ID # 1ee5bf164f
Principal Connections of the Italia Line, Cosulich Line, and Lloyd Triestino, from Genoa to South Africa, Gibraltar to South Africa, and Gibraltar to New York, from 15 September 1935 to 5 December 1935. Connecting Ships Included the Giulio Cesare, Duilio, Rex, and Roma. Transatlantic Ships Included the Conte di Savoia and Giulio Cesare. SS Rex Passenger List, 13 September 1935. GGA Image ID # 1ee5cb43d8
Principal Connections of the Italia Line, Cosulich Line, and Lloyd Triestino, from Naples to Egypt and Naples to India, from 17 September 1935 to 12 December 1935. Connecting Ships Included the Esperia, Victoria, and C. Rosso (via Brindisl). Transatlantic Ships Included the Conte Grande, Conte di Savoia, and Rex. SS Rex Passenger List, 13 September 1935. GGA Image ID # 1ee5d21a94
Sailing Schedule, New York to Europe, from 20 August 1938 to 4 January 1939. Ships Included the Conte di Savoia, Rex, Roma, Saturnia, and Vulcania. SS Rex Passenger List, 9 August 1938. GGA Image ID # 1ee6bd0d94
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Summer Season Third Class Port Rates For Direct Sailings From New York or Boston Including Return Passage. Ships Included the Rex, Conte di Savoia, Roma, Saturnia, and Vulcania. Third Class Rates Brochure, 1938. GGA Image ID # 12533669a1. Click to View Larger Image.
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Classic Ocean Liners, Volume 1: Berengaria, Leviathan, & Majestic
An absorbing and detailed account of the three ships: Berengaria, Leviathan, & Majestic, 50,000-ton dinosaurs of the transatlantic lines in the years before World War I.
Doomed Ships: Great Ocean Liner Disasters
Naval historian William H. Miller, Jr. recounts the dramatic stories behind various ill-fated passenger ships. He takes readers beyond the newspaper headlines and formal inquiries, offering firsthand accounts of heroic rescues, daring escapes, and tragic losses.
Era of the Passenger Liner - 1992
The Gilded Era comes back to life as the reader relives the careers of stately ships and express greyhounds from immigrant ships to floating palaces. Scarce, large format book containing 288pp. Features photographs, statistics, and background of 280 passenger liners, each with a picture.
The Fabulous Interiors of the Great Ocean Liners - 1984
Some 200 superb photographs—in long shots and close-ups—capture exquisite interiors of world's great "floating palaces"—1890s to 1980s: Titanic, Île de France, Queen Elizabeth, United States, Europa, more. Informative captions provide key details.
The Great Liners: The Seafarers, Volume 4
A history of the world's famous luxury liners provides portraits of the ships. It examines such great disasters as the sinking of the Titanic. This edition explores the grand hotels that traversed the Atlantic between 1840 and 1930.
Great Passenger Ships of the World 1924-1935
Volume 3 in the series covers the years 1924-1935 and includes the introduction of the well-known superliners Normandie and Queen Mary, both of which successfully competed for the prestigious Blue Riband award for the fastest transatlantic crossing.
Italia 1881-2001 - Merchant Fleets # 40
Duncan Haws featured 494 ships and their history, with 149 profiles covering over 450 vessels. This book was the final volume in the Merchant Fleets series. It illustrated the convoluted history of the Italian Line.
Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style
This beautifully illustrated book considers over a century of liner design, from the striking graphics created to promote liners to the triumphs of engineering and from luxurious interiors to onboard fashion and activities.
Passenger Liners of the World Since 1893
The author here takes a nostalgic look back to the heyday of the passenger ship, providing a brief history of 211 ships of over 10,000 tons, together with specifications and technical details of each.
Passenger Ships of the World - 1963
🎓 “A Global Voyage Through Steamship History for Historians, Genealogists, and Maritime Enthusiasts”
Eugene W. Smith’s Passenger Ships of the World – Past and Present (1963) is a masterfully curated encyclopedic reference that charts the rise, peak, and transformation of ocean-going passenger ships through nearly two centuries. Expanding upon his earlier Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific works, Smith offers a global maritime panorama that includes ships serving the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Oceania, as well as Canal routes and California-Hawaii shuttle lines.
🧭 This book is an essential resource for:
- Maritime historians seeking design evolution and fleet data
- Genealogists tracing voyages and shipping lines
- Educators and students studying transoceanic migration and tourism
- Ship modelers, naval architects, and enthusiasts interested in dimensions, tonnage, and speed
Pictorial Encyclopedia of Ocean Liners, 1860-1994
One of the most comprehensive pictorial references on ocean liners ever published, this superb chronicle by noted maritime historian William H. Miller, Jr., depicts and describes virtually every passenger ship of over 15,000 tons built between 1860 and the late 1900s.
Picture History of British Ocean Liners: 1900 to the Present
Over 200 rare black-and-white illustrations provide views of the ships at sea and in port, glimpses of lavish staterooms, lounges, dining areas, onboard photos of celebrities and royalty, and much more.
Picture History of the Andrea Doria
Graceful, fast, and luxuriously outfitted, the Andrea Doria was one of the most famous ships of the 20th century. On July 26, 1956, three years after its inaugural voyage, the famous Italian liner was assured of an immortal place in maritime history after colliding with another vessel off the New England coast and sinking.
Picture History of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth
Powerful and fast Atlantic liners of the 1930s, this volume is packed with high-quality vintage photographs of the RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth, from construction to heyday to eventual decline and their successor ships bearing the same name.
THE ATLANTIC LINERS will be cherished by all the millions of Americans who love the sea. Frederick Emmons sketches the histories of every ocean liner that sailed between the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1970.
Tourist Third Cabin: Steamship Travel in the Interwar Years
Ocean Liners and New Vistas of Interwar Society From Immigrants to Tourists. The Changing Complexion of Translatlantic Passengers as The Soul of a Ship. Experience and Life of Below-Deck Personnel Traveling Palace or Floating Sweatshop. The Experience of Women Seafarers Projecting an Image: The Allure of Transatlantic Travel.
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