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SS Conte Grande
The SS "Conte Grande" was a Lloyd Sabaudo Line ocean liner built in 1927 by Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino in Trieste, Italy, to service the transatlantic passenger line between Genoa, Italy, and New York City. Launched on 29 June 1927, her maiden voyage was from Genoa to Naples to New York City, which occurred on 13 April 1928. In 1932, after acquisition by the Italian Line, she was transferred to the South America service but was laid up in Santos, Brazil in 1940.
-based Cosulich STN lines, encouraged by the Italian government. The new company acquired the Cosulich-owned ships MS "Saturnia" and MS "Vulcania", the Lloyd Sabaudo-owned SS "Conte Rosso", SS "Conte Biancamano" and SS "Conte Grande" and the NGI-owned SS "Giulio Cesare", SS "Duilio", SS "Roma" and MS "Augustus". The same year two previously commissioned ocean liners were delivered to the company: SS "Rex", that captured