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Topic: Cards of the week 36/52... TSS Rex

AJL
First Class Passenger
Member # 956

posted 09-08-2002 02:07 PM

Length: 268,4 m
Beam: 29,3 m
GRT: 51,062 t
Built: 1932 Ansaldo SpA, Sestri-Ponente, Genoa, Italy
Operator: Societá di Navigazione (Italian Line)
Speed: 28 kn
Passengers: 2,358

She was built for Italy - New York service.
In August 1933 she captured the Blue Riband with an average speed of 28.92 knots, over the Bremen's 28.51 knots. Her record crossing would hold until the Normandie won the Riband in May 1935.
Laid up from 1940 first in Bari and then in Trieste, on 09-08-1944 (exactly 58 years ago) she was sighted by RAF bombers, and was hit by 123 rockets.
She burst into flames by her entire length and on the following day capsized and sank in the shallow waters off Trieste where she was anchored.
She was scrapped during 1947-58.

AJL

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Rex
First Class Passenger
Member # 1113

posted 09-08-2002 09:44 PM

Next to the NORMANDIE, the most beautiful ship ever built. And the reason for my screen name. And that counter stern -- exquisite.

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 09-09-2002 12:10 PM

A third class cabin

Third class dining room. Far more elegant than the Norway's Le Bistro shlock

third class main lounge

turbine

a condenser

[ 09-09-2002: Message edited by: desirod6 ]

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cruiseny
First Class Passenger
Member # 2928

posted 09-09-2002 12:31 PM

Desirod - are those pictures really of third class!

She was indeed one of the most beautiful ships in the world... Absolutely spectacular.

My grandfather remembers visiting her, he gets a far-away look in his eyes when I mention this ship .

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norman warren
First Class Passenger
Member # 1602

posted 09-09-2002 02:03 PM

why is the turbine laying on its side?

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 01-13-2005 09:37 AM

Question came up in a private email. Here are the Rex Interiors.

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