MS Vulcania

• Caribia (1965 )

Registration number: 288 IMO number: 5384059

The motor ship Vulcania was a 1928 put into service passenger ship in the Italian shipping company Cosulich Societa Triestina di Navigazione.

History

It was built in 1926 in the shipyard Cantiere Navale Trientino in Monfalcone and was present at your launch with 192.2 m long and 24.3 m wide, the largest motor ship in the world. The diesel engine plant had two propeller shafts. Early in 1935 the Motonave Vulcania was used for the transport of Italian troops in the Italian- Ethiopian War ( 1935-1936 ). From May to October 1935, the survey has been increased from 23 970 to 24 469 GRT and the two Burmeister & Wain machines by two Fiat 10-cylinder two-stroke engines, each with 18,000 hp, replaced. The engine performance was in 1935 in the civilian shipping unmatched. 1940 sold William A. Mosetti (* November 25, 1914 Trieste, † 1992 Bern ) former ships of the Lloyd Trientino to Aristotle Onassis, which made ​​her flag out in Argentina. In early 1941, were evacuated via the ports of Zeila and Berbera in British Somaliland via Cape of Good Hope to Genoa under the banner of the ICRC refugees from Italian East Africa. 1941, the transatlantic ship was chartered by the Italian government and transported troops to Tripoli. On September 16, 1941, she went to an association with the sister ships Neptunia and Oceania, as these were sunk at Taranto of the Upholder. From 1942 to 1943, the ship for three trips by the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees was chartered. From October 1943 to 29 March 1946 she was chartered by the United States Army as a troop ship. From March 29, 1946 to October 4, 1946 she was chartered by the American Export Lines, which she used on the route New York City Naples Alexandria six times. In mid-November 1946, she returned with her anchored in New York City sister ship Saturnia to the Italian shipowners. From November 15 1946 to 21 September 1955, she was employed by Italia Line on the route New York City - Naples - Genoa. In July 1947 she was chartered by the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees for a ride Genoa -Barcelona -Las Palmas Rio de Janeiro - Montevideo - Buenos Aires. From 21 September 1955 to 1965 she was on the route Trieste- Venice -Patras - used Naples -Palermo - Gibraltar - Lisbon - Halifax- New York City. In 1965 she was sold to the sicula Oceanica Societa per Azioni ( Siosa ), majority owned by the Grimaldis, sold, she used as emigrant ship under the name Caribia. In 1974 the ship was finally decommissioned and scrapped a year later.

Sister ship Saturnia (1927-1965)

The in September 1927, commissioned in Saturnia ( 23,940 GRT) was the identical sister ship of Vulcania. The Saturnia was used to transport troops to Ethiopia. The rides went through the Suez Canal. The Wafd Party protested in Cairo, as the Saturnia with Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini and Vittorio Mussolini, Bruno ( * 1918, † 1941) on August 27, 1935 in Port Said made ​​station. The Motonave Saturnia was stopped on 17 October 1939 on the voyage to New York City at the Azores by the French submarine Pascal (Q 138), searched, two passengers with citizenship of the German Empire were captured, seven German Jews were allowed to continue after New York Harbor, where the ship until mid- November 1946 dropped anchor.