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SATURNIA - IMO 5314597

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D. Boyd [ View profile ]
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Saturnia
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May 6, 2018
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Saturnia, Italian Line at Commonwealth Pier, Boston, Massachusetts 3 May 1957.
built 1927 at Cantiere Navale Triestino for Cosulich Line
GRT: 23,940, Length: 632 ft, Beam: 80 ft
Passengers: 370 1st cl, 412 2nd cl, 319 3rd cl, 564 4th cl
503 crew
Used as hospital ship during World War II. Taken over by U.S. Army after Italian surrender, served as hospital ship Francis Y. Slanger 1943-46. Returned to Italian Line, in service till 1965.
Out of service 7 Oct 1965, Scrapped 1966 at Terresstre Maritima, La Spezia, Italy.
****back-lit flatbed scan from postcard negative. photo: Earle G. Boyd

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I am more than pleased at how well this scan came out. Laying the negative on the flatbed scanner with a muted LED lamp to back-light is about as jury-rigged/Rube Goldberg kind of a set-up. The detail is great and it is a scan that would be a shame not to share. I have many negatives of the old "postcard' size. My dad loved that camera and was very dismayed Kodak decided to discontinue that film size. This ship is a classic, but only nostalgia buffs would ever want to book a cruise on a ship like this. Classic lines... a beauty from an age that will not return. We'll be stuck with cruise ships that look more like a floating apartment building.

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Beautiful, classic, elegant; no doubt about that. However, Saturnia and Vulcania were not cruise ships, they were most definitely liners.

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Now these were cruise ships, beautiful, classic,elegant Italian designed and built, not the monstrosities of today.thanks for sharing.
regards
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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How can anyone not be moved by such a sight??

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