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MV Saturnia

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{{Infobox ship | Ship image = File:Hmhs Saturnia GM541.jpg | Ship caption = MV Saturnia as a hospital ship in 1943.

|module= Career (Kingdom of Italy) Name: MV SaturniaNamesake: SaturniaOwner:

Cantiere Navale Triestino, TriesteLaid down: 5 March 1925Launched: 19 December 1925Reclassified:

  • HMHS Saturnia
  • (1937-1943)Homeport:

TriesteFate: Confiscated by United States in 1943 |module2= Career (United States) Name:

  • MV Saturnia
  • (1943-1945)
  • USAHS Frances Y. Slanger
  • (1945)Namesake:

Frances Y. SlangerOwner:

Transferred back to Italy in 1946 MV Saturnia was an Italian ocean liner later converted to a hospital ship. She was named after Saturnia. She has a sister ship MS Vulcania.[1]

Construction and career[]

On September 21, 1927, the MV Saturnia left Trieste on her maiden voyage to South America via Naples and Marseille. On February 1, 1928, she left for her first Atlantic crossing to New York.

On January 1, 1937, the new company Italia Società di Navigazione was founded in Genoa, known in the English-speaking world as Italian Line, and which took over the holdings of the state-owned shipping company Italia Flotte Riunite. The Saturnia thus came to Italia Società di Navigazione in 1937.

USAHS Frances Y. Slanger docked at New York Harbor in 1945.

USAHS Frances Y. Slanger docked at New York Harbor in 1945.

Interned in New York Harbor in May 1940, the ship was confiscated by the United States in December 1941 and converted into a hospital ship in 1945. On February 13, 1945, the ship under the name Frances Y. Slanger was commissioned as a hospital ship for the United States Army. It was named after Frances Y. Slanger (1913-1944), an American field nurse who was killed in an artillery attack by the German Wehrmacht on October 21, 1944 in Elsenborn, Belgium. She was the first American nurse to die from enemy action in Europe during World War II.[2]

In November 1946 the ship was returned to Italy and renamed Saturnia again. It was completely overhauled and from then on could carry 240 passengers in first class, 270 in second class and 860 in tourist class. On January 20, 1947, she embarked on her first post-war voyage from Genoa via Naples to New York. Her last journey on this route began on October 3, 1955. Then MV Saturnia was put on the Mediterranean-USA-Canada route and ran in North America to Halifax, Boston and New York, among others. On March 7, 1965, she set sail for her very last voyage across the Atlantic. On October 7 of the same year she arrived in La Spezia, where she was broken up shortly afterwards.[3]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ↑ Grace, Michael L.. "HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LINE and THE MS VULCANIA" (in en-US). https://www.cruiselinehistory.com/history-of-the-italian-line-and-the-ms-vulcania/. 
  2. ↑ "Italian Line - Italia Societa di Navigazione - USAT Saturnia - Frances Y. Slanger". http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/slanger.htm. 
  3. ↑ "Saturnia" (in it). https://www.italianliners.com/saturnia-en. 

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