SS Vulcania Archival Collection
MV Saturnia and MV Vulcania of the Italian Line. Gross Tonnage 24,470. Third Class Rates Brochure, 1938. GGA Image ID # 125262503e
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- Vulcania (1928) (a) Cosulich Line, (b) Italia Line Ship's History (Brief)
- Passenger Lists
- Brochures
- Passage Contracts, Tickets, and Receipts
- Passage Rates
- Sailing Schedules
- Route Maps, Track Charts, Abstract of Logs
- Deck Plans
- Stationery
- Books Referencing the SS Vulcania
- Title Pages
- Senior Officers and Staff
Vulcania (1928) (a) Cosulich Line, (b) Italia Line
Built by Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriático, Monfalcone, Italy. Tonnage: 23,970. Dimensions: 601' x 79' (631' o.l.). Propulsion: Twin- screw, 19 knots. Motorship. Masts and Funnels: Two masts and one funnel. Launched: December 18, 1926. Maiden voyage: Trieste- New York, December 19, 1928. Passengers: 1,700 in four classes. Upgrades: New oil engines of 26,000 s.h.p. installed in 1935. Speed increased to 21 knots. War Service: Converted to American troopship in World War II. The liner was returned to Italy early in 1947. Postwar Upgrades: Reconditioned for trans-Atlantic service. Tonnage increased to 24,496. Service Changes: Since resuming regular service she was used on the Genoa-Naples-New York route until 1955, when she was once again placed in the Trieste-New York trade. Passengers: 240 first, 270 cabin, 860 tourist. Fate: Sunk on way to scrappers, 1974. Sister ship: Saturnia. Note: Largest motorships built to date.
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1930-08-19 SS Vulcania Passenger List
Steamship Line: Cosulich Line - Trieste
Class of Passengers: Tourist Third Class
Date of Departure: 19 August 1930
Route: Naples to New York via Cannes
Commander: Captain Antonio Hreglich
1938-07-14 SS Vulcania Passenger List
Steamship Line: Italia Line
Class of Passengers: First Class
Date of Departure: 14 July 1938
Route: Trieste to New York via Dubrovnik, Patra, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, Gibraltar, Lisbon, and Azores
Commander: Captain William Lazzari
1951-05-25 SS Vulcania Passenger Lists
Steamship Line: Italia Line
Class of Passengers: First Class
Date of Departure: 25 May 1951
Route: Genoa to Halifax and New York via Cannes, Naples, Palermo, and Gibraltar
Commander: Captain Giovanni Giurini
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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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SS Vulcania Passage Contract - 27 April 1948
Passage Receipt and transportation contract for passage on the SS Vulcania of the Italia Line sailing 1 May 1948 from Alexandria to New York for a 24-year-old American male from Dallas, Texas. American Export Line was acting as a general agent of Italia S.A.N., Genoa.
SS Vulcania Passage Contract - 15 May 1956
Passenger's Receipt, Italian Line Passage Ticket Contract for Passage on the SS Vulcania, Departing from New York for Naples Dated 15 May 1956.
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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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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
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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Italia Societa Anonima di Navigazione Route Map. SS Vulcania Passenger List, 25 May 1951. GGA Image ID # 1ece4c7ed5. Click to View Larger Image.
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Title Page, Italian Line ("Italia" Società di Navigazione, Genova) M.V. Vulcania Plan of Passenger Accommodation, 15 April 1953. From the Chris Crofts Collection. GGA Image ID # 213750ce79
MV Vulcania of the Italia Line, 1953. From the Chris Crofts Collection. GGA Image ID # 213782be7e
Guide Plan, Italian Line ("Italia" Società di Navigazione, Genova) M.V. Vulcania Plan of Passenger Accommodation, 15 April 1953. From the Chris Crofts Collection. GGA Image ID # 213799a839
Deck Plan, Italian Line ("Italia" Società di Navigazione, Genova) M.V. Vulcania Plan of Passenger Accommodation, 15 April 1953. From the Chris Crofts Collection. GGA Image ID # 2137b1db6d. Click to View Larger Image.
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M/V Vulcania of the Italia Line Letterhead, 1951. GGA Image ID # 1eceb5f50b
M/V Vulcania of the Italia Line Envelope with Italia Logo on Back Side, 1951. GGA Image ID # 1ecefc9392
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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.
Here is the story of twentieth-century passenger shipping, from the first of the superliners — the German Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse — to Cunard's Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary, right up to Queen Elizabeth 2.
The First Great Ocean Liners in Photographs - 1983
Sumptuous volume recalls the glorious early years of elegant transatlantic travel. Over 190 historic photographs depict exterior and interior views of 101 great ocean liners, including the Virginian, Imperator, Vaterland, Bismarck, Lusitania, Mauretania, Balmoral Castle, Titanic, Olympic, Aquitania and dozens more. Full captions.
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.
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
Passenger Ships of the World, 1963, represents an incredible resource covering passenger ships that are Trans-Atlantic, Trans-Pacific, Trans-Pacific via Panama Canal, Latin American, Africa and the Eastern Oceans, and California-Hawaii.
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 American Passenger Ships - 2001
Loving tribute to luxury liners documents more than 100 ships, including the Leviathan, the America, the Independence, the President Polk, and the United States. Detailed captions provide tonnage, speed, size, and passenger load information.
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 Cunard Line 1840 - 1990
The Picture History of the Cunard Line 1840 - 1990 has over 180 photographs and illustrations showing the liners on the high seas and in port and depicting handsome staterooms, lounges, interior decor, and carefree life aboard ship.
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.
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Title Page, SS Vulcania Tourist Third Class Passenger List, 19 August 1930. GGA Image ID # 207985f56c
Title Page, SS Vulcania First Class Passenger List, 14 July 1938. GGA Image ID # 2079e28160
Title Page, First Class Passenger List, MV Vulcania, 25 May 1951. GGA Image ID # 207a7b96dd
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Senior Officers and Staff on the SS Vulcania for the Voyage Departing Naples for New York 19 August 1930. GGA Image ID # 2079c4bba1
Senior Officers and Staff on the SS Vulcania for a Voyage No. 14 Departing from Trieste for New York, 14 July 1938. GGA Image ID # 207a10d76d
Senior Officers and Staff for the Westbound Voyage No. 74 of the MV Vulcania, 25 May 1951, Part 1 of 2. GGA Image ID # 207abc8303
Senior Officers and Staff for the Westbound Voyage No. 74 of the MV Vulcania, 25 May 1951, Part 2 of 2. GGA Image ID # 207aefecba
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