Welcome to our Conte di Savoia website celebrating this stylish and beautiful ship.  In the late 1920s and early 1930s the main Italian operators on the "Sunny Southern Route" to North America from the Mediterranean to New York ordered their own giant ocean liners. Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) and Lloyd Sabaudo each ordered a single large express ships. However Mussolini ordered the merger of the major Italian shipping lines into Italia Flotte Riunite (later known as Italia Line). Thus the two intended rivals became fleetmates.

The Lloyd Sabaudo contribution was the Conte di Savoia. She was an elegant and well proportioned liner. Taking advantage of the warmer climate of the more southernly route across the North Atlantic, she featured outdoor swimming pools set within lido areas on the upper decks. She was also unique among the great superliners of the era by having three gyro stablisers installed within her lower hull to supress movement in rough seas. However both ships were commercially successful and very popular. Indeed the Conte di Savoia was widely regarded as the loveliest Italian liner of the time. Sadly the Conte di Savoia was destroyed by Allied bombing during the Second World War.

This website aims to record the history of this fine ocean liner and act as a virtual home to honour and celebrate this fine ship. We hope you enjoy this website and when you leave we hope you will visit again soon.

Her Regular Service Route: Italy to the United States of America (USA)

Genoa to New York (via Naples and Gibraltar) transatlantic service

"THE TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING"

ITALIA FLOTTE RIUNITE, GENOA

(ITALIA LINE)