MV Saturnia was an Italian ocean liner named after Saturnia, Tuscany, the first of two sister ships built in Trieste for Cosulich Soc. Triestina di Nav. of Trieste and launched in 1925. Sister ship MS Vulcania was launched the next year. Saturnia served into World War II for Italy and upon the Italian armistice with the Allies was delivered to the U.S. War Shipping Administration (WSA) in an arrangement made between Italy and Admiral Cunningham of the Royal Navy, approved by General Eisenhower.
Saturnia as Italian troop ship passing through Suez Canal, Sept. 1935.
Saturnia brochure by Argio Orell
MV Saturnia in 1943. The ship was engaged in repatriation of Italian civilians from East Africa under the Red Cross.
USAHS Frances Y. Slanger docked at New York Harbor in 1945.
The MS Vulcania was an Italian ocean liner built by Cantiere Navale Triestino, Monfalcone, northern Italy, in 1926 for the Italian company, Cosulich Line.
MS Vulcania