SITMAR (Società Italiana di Servizi Marittimi) Lines

[Nicholas Peppas]

Here is a new subject on the pre- and post-war SITMAR, which means "Società Italiana di Servizi Marittimi".

First, here is an ad from the March 1927 issue of the francophone Egyptian magazine La semaine egyptienne. With a majestic ESPERIA!

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IDNo: 5604347 Year: 1920
Name: ESPERIA Keel:
Type: Passenger ship Launch Date:
Flag: ITA Date of completion: 5.20
Tons: 11393 Link: 3051
DWT: Yard No: 66
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: 150.0 Country of build: ITA
Beam: 18.8 Builder: Esercizio Bacini
Material of build: Location of yard: Riva Trigoso
Number of screws/Mchy/ Speed(kn): 2ST-21
Disposal Data: sm/t 11nm 318 Tripoli LH 20.8.41

The majestic ESPERIA!

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http://www.meherbabatravels.com/ship-travels/esperia/

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http://www.meherbabatravels.com/ship-travels/esperia/

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Sailings January-July 1923 for:
Esperia, Milano, Sicilia, Umbria, Sardegna, Costantinopoli, Bormida, Albania, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Scrivia, Bolsena, Albano

Ports of call:
Genoa, Naples, Syracuse, Alexandria ("Grand Express");
Genoa, Naples, Syracuse, Alexandria, Port Said, Jaffa, Haifa, Beirut, Tripoli, Alexandretta, Mersina, Larnaca, Adalia, Rhodes, Smyrna, Constantinople;
Genoa, Naples, Catania, Alexandria;
others, incl. routes to the Black Sea and the Danube
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http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/sitmar1.htm

Sailings January-July 1931 for:
Ausonia, Esperia, Brasile, Italia, Milano, Umbria, Sardegna

Ports of call:
Genoa, Naples, Syracuse, Alexandria ("Grand Express");
Genoa, Naples, Catania, Alexandria, Port Said, Jaffa, Haifa, Beirut, Tripoli, Larnaca, Limassol, Constantinople, Piraeus, Marseilles;
Genoa, Naples, Catania, Piraeus, Constantinople, Rhodes, Mersina, Alexandretta, Tripoli, Beirut, Haifa, Alexandria, Messina
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http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/sitmar1.htm

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Details

General
nationality: italian
purpose: transport
type: passenger ship
propulsion: steam
date built: 1913

Details
weight (tons): 4152 grt
dimensions : 110,8 x 13,7 x 7,4 m
material: steel
engine: 2 triple expansion engines, 2 screws
power: 454 n.h.p.
speed: 13 knots
yard no.: 73
IMO/Off. no.: 5603583
about the loss
cause lost: air raid

date lost: 14/01/1944


http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?143312

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Type of ship : Cargo ship
Year of build and builder : 1884 Burrell & Son - Dumbarton – GBR

Shipowner : Società Italiana di Transporti Marittimi Raggio & Co.


Sold to Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) not renamed, 1910 transferred to Societa Nationale del Servizi Marittimi, 1913 transferred to SITMAR, 1928 scrapped

http://www.naviearmatori.net/eng/foto-79272-1.html

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Sailings January-July 1923 for:

Esperia, Milano, Sicilia, Umbria, Sardegna, Costantinopoli, Bormida, Albania, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Scrivia, Bolsena, Albano
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ALBANO sailing through Alexandroupolis.

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