One of the best interiorspaces come from an Italian Liner of 1923 built, called Duilio. Here we see her ornate first class ballroom.. An amazingly beautiful decorated space in Lodewijck style.....SS Duilio was the first Italian super ocean liner and one of the largest Italian merchant fleets until 1925. She was 24,281 gross tons and was the sister to SS Giulio Cesare, which launched in 1921. She was constructed for the Italian shipping company “Navigazione Generale Italiana” of Genoa and constructed by the Ansaldo Shipyard of Sestri Ponente. SS Duilio was laid down in 1914 and launched on January 9, 1916 in the Ansaldo Yard but was not completed until 1923. She made her maiden voyage on October 29, 1923 from Naples to New York. Her safety standards exceeded the norms of the time. For example, she had 17 compartments although only 12 were required by the First International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea. This would enable her to still float with 4 flooded compartments. First among the Italian steamships, Duilio had a complete system of anti-roll cases. The ship was constructed with coal-fired steam engines for the Naples–New York route, but was later transferred to the Genoa–Buenos Aires route on July 24, 1928. She was adapted for Naphtha combustion at Pristava and subsequently served on the new Italian line to South Africa alongside the SS Giulio Cesare. She was chartered to Lloyd Triestino in 1933 and then transferred to Lloyd Triestino in 1936. She was laid up in 1940. In 1942, during the Second World War, SS Duilio was briefly chartered to the International Red Cross, before being laid up at the port of Trieste in 1943, again alongside the SS Giulio Cesare. The SS Duilio and the SS Giulio Cesare were sunk there on July 10, 1944, in an attack by Allied aircraft. Her wreckage was re-floated and scrapped in 1948.
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