SS Rex was an Italian ocean liner launched in 1931.[1] She held the westbound Blue Riband between 1933 and 1935. Originally built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) as SS Guglielmo Marconi, its state-ordered merger with the Lloyd Sabaudo line meant that the ship sailed for the newly created Italia Flotta Riunite (Italian Line).
Rex operated transatlantic crossings from Italy with its running mate, Conte di Savoia prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Rex maintained a commercial service in the Mediterranean Sea for eight years, but when Italy entered the war in June 1940 Rex was laid up for safe-keeping. On 8 September 1944, off Capodistria, Rex was hit by cannon fire and 123 rockets launched by Royal Air Force aircraft, caught fire from bow to stern. She rolled onto the port side, burned for four days, and sank in shallow water. The ship was partially broken up in situ in 1950.
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scene. The Italian Line completed SSRex and SS Conte di Savoia in 1932, breaking the records of both luxury and speed (Rex won the westbound Blue Riband...
cost of $300,000. He named the ships the SSRex and the SS Tango. Cornero's premier cruise ship was the SSRex, which could accommodate over 2,000 gamblers...
of larger and faster liners such as Germany's SS Bremen and SS Europa, Italy's SSRex and France's SS Île de France, and the remaining passengers tended...
Ribbon" in Italian, in honor of the Blue Riband won by Italian ocean liner SSRex in 1933. Nastro Azzurro has also sponsored teams in Grand Prix motorcycle...
devastating to them, as two of their newest and largest ships – the SSRex and SS Conte di Savoia – had been destroyed. The Italian Line at this point...
workers. The new ships were to be the largest built in Italy since the SSRex in 1932. Accommodations aboard the ships were to be divided into three classes...
ships. On August 1, 1939, state authorities raided SS Texas and SSRex off Santa Monica and Showboat and SS Tango off Long Beach. A court ruling later that...
(710 mi; 1,150 km) over the Atlantic Ocean to intercept the Italian liner SSRex to illustrate the ability of land-based airpower to defend the American...
main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy...
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beer "Nastro Azzurro" referring to the Blue Riband held by the Italian SSRex from 1933 to 1935. Beginning in the 1940s, Warner Bros., in a cost-conserving...
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nearly 46,000 tons. They were the largest ships built in Italy since SSRex and SS Conte di Savoia in the 1930s. The Italian Line planned the ships as...
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SS Île de France, SSRex, SS Normandie, RMS Queen Mary, SS America, RMS Queen Elizabeth, SS France, Queen Elizabeth 2, RMS Queen Mary 2, and the SS United...
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technological projects such as the construction of the Italian ocean liner SSRex, which in 1933 made a transatlantic sea crossing record of four days, funded...
Italian Line had lost a large portion of its fleet, including the ocean liner SSRex. The surviving ships were refitted and repaired, and returned to passenger...
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in 1933, the year of the maiden voyage of the transatlantic ocean liner SSRex (which is shown in Amarcord). The sea creature found on the beach at the...
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