SS Conte Verde
SS Conte Verde in 1930s
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| Name: | SS Conte Verde |
| Namesake: | Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy |
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| Port of registry: |
.svg){kind=small} Genoa, Italy
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| Builder: | William Beardmore & Co. of Glasgow, Scotland |
| Launched: | October 21, 1922 |
| Maiden voyage: | April 21, 1923 |
| Fate: | Scuttled on September 8, 1943, refloated by Japanese military in 1944, and re-sunk by US air raid in July 1945. |
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| Type: | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage: | 18,761 gross |
| Length: | 180.1 m |
| Beam: | 22.6 m |
| Propulsion: | steam turbines double reduction unit and two propellers |
| Speed: | 18.5 knots |
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| Crew: | 400 total |
Conte Verde was an Italian ocean liner active in the early 20th century.
The name was chosen in honor of Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, the so-called “Green Count.” She was launched in 1923 at the shipyard of William Beardmore and Company in Dalmuir, Scotland. The ship was a transatlantic liner of 18,761 GRT, ordered by the Italian shipping company Lloyd Sabaudo Line in Genoa. The first-class accommodations had a capacity of 450 passengers, second class was 200 passengers and third class (emigrants rooms) was 1,780 passengers. In addition, 400 crew members were on board. The ship was composed of 10 decks. The interiors of public rooms were designed in luxurious Italian classical styles. Her sister ship was the SS Conte Rosso.
She started her maiden voyage from Genoa to Buenos Aires on April 21, 1923. She set sail for New York on June 13, 1923. One of her most famous voyages was when she brought the national association football teams of Romania, France, Belgium and Brazil to Uruguay to participate in the 1930 FIFA World Cup. The Romanian team boarded in Genoa, the French delegation (including FIFA president Jules Rimet) boarded in Villefranche-sur-Mer, the Belgian team boarded in Barcelona, and the Brazilian team boarded in Rio de Janeiro. The trophy and three referees, Jean Langenus, Henri Christophe, and Thomas Balvay also crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the ship. Other celebrities who sailed on the Conte Verde include Fyodor Chaliapin, a Russian opera singer, Josephine Baker, an American dancer, Fosco Maraini, an Italian academic of Tibetan and Japanese studies as well as a photographer and mountaineer, and Dacia Maraini, an Italian writer. Giovanni Giotta, owner of a famous San Francisco café, the Caffe Trieste founded in 1956, was a member of the ship’s crew.
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