Word: saturnia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queen Mary 81,235 1,987 Mauretania 35,677 1,157 Media 13,700 250 NETHERLANDS Veendam 15,652 530 Noordam 10,726 150 Wester dam 12,149 150 FRANCE De Grasse 18,435 711 SWEDEN Gripsholm 18,134 1,400 Drottningholm 11,055 700 ITALY (but U.S.-operated) Saturnia 19,637 1,600 Vulcania 24,469 1,600 SPAIN Magallanes 9,689 550 Marques de Comillas 9,922 550 Habana 8,279 100 POLAND Batory 14,287 832 Sobieski 10,030 766 NORWAY Stavangerfjord 13,156 750 GREECE Nea Hellas 16,991 1,450 CANADA Empress of Canada...
...others: Holland America Line's Veendam (552 passengers), Westerdam (150) and Noordam (150); Swedish America Line's Gripsholm (1,400) and Drottningholm (700); Italy's Saturnia (1,500); Norwegian America Line's Stavangerfjord (750); Spanish Line's Magallanes (500) and Marques de Camillas (500); French Line's Wisconsin (65) and Oregon (60); Gdynia American Line's Batory...
...fast Russian ships, packed tight as troop transports with tens of thousands of Armenians, have been shuttling for the last three months from Mediterranean ports through the Dardanelles toward Russia. One of the ships, the former Italian liner Saturnia (rechristened Rossia), brought gasps from disconsolate Turkish citizens on Istanbul's docks: it was the biggest vessel ever to pass through the Bosporus...
...martial Mediterranean last week, strangely pacific ships were afloat. From fig-famed Smyrna on the Turkish coast, the British Llandovery Castle, brightly lighted, sailed for Egypt. In the same harbor the Italian Grandisca got up steam to sail for Italy. Into Gibraltar, unscathed, sailed the Italian Saturnia and Vulcania, sparkling with fresh white paint...
...Vulcania-Saturnia mission was larger-scale and generously unilateral. No less than 11,000 Italian civilians-men incapable of military service, women & children-marooned in East Africa when Allied troops brought Mussolini's imperial dream crashing down, were to be repatriated gradually from coastal camps. Notable was the fact that the Italian ships were headed round Africa's Cape of Good Hope...