From top to bottom, we see ENRICO C, FLAVIA, CARLA C, and EUGENIO C. All have been scrapped. This scene reminds me of the collection of Costa models hanging from the ceiling of COSTA FORTUNA!

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Originally posted by NAL:
. Although similar, I always liked the exterior lines of Eugenio C better than Oceanic. .

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EUGENIO C was to have looked much more like OCEANIC, before some design changes were implemented during early construction:

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Originally posted by Linerrich:

EUGENIO C was to have looked much more like OCEANIC, before some design changes were implemented during early construction:

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Originally posted by Thad:
Does anyone have any pictures of the two ships together? I would be interesting to see to compare and contrast.

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Not photographed together, and the OCEANIC photo is recent (although her profile remains unchanged.) Here are identical views of the ships for comparison:

By the way, the white little liner-ferry on the top is one of the 50s handsome CALABRIA class.

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Originally posted by Cunard Fan:
Beautiful. What are the other two ships in the back ground?

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Originally posted by lasuvidaboy:

The Carla C, Flavia and Enrico C as I remember.

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Originally posted by Cunard Fan:
Beautiful. What are the other two ships in the back ground?

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As Vaccaro mentioned, the topmost vessel is the CALABRIA of 1952 (or one of her sisters). The other vessel appears to be a ferry of 1960's vintage, but I don't know which one.

Sadly, I guess we may never again see a Costa ship in Genoa, since it has a terminal in Savona now.

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Originally posted by claudio:
you forgot marconi and galileo come from same designer / yard im sure the hulls are identical gorgeous ships

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The hulls were not identical. The Galileo and Marconi were shorter and narrower than either of the other two and had different sterns. Also, Oceanic was 69 feet longer than Eugenio C.

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Originally posted by NAL:
Doug....both Oceanic and Eugenio C were very similar in interior design....lots of highly polished floors, velour chairs and sofas, sheers over the windows, chrome and very highly polished surfaces. Most rooms seemed to have furniture all in the same color....that is to say a room would be all green or rose, etc.

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There are a few images of Oceanic's interiors taken in the 1970s (from the style of clothing) on the ss Maritime site at www.ssmaritime.com/oceanic.htm

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Originally posted by Linerrich:

As Vaccaro mentioned, the topmost vessel is the CALABRIA of 1952 (or one of her sisters). The other vessel appears to be a ferry of 1960's vintage, but I don't know which one.

Rich

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That is, without a doubt, one of the 'POETA' serie of Tirrenia di Navigazione, which included BOCCACIO, CARDUCCI, LEOPARDI, MANZONI, PASCOLI and PETRARCA which then became famous for their radical (and awful with new very high sperstructure) refits later.

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Originally posted by dougnewman:

EUGENIO C. is one of the most beautiful ships ever built. I have always preferred her to OCEANIC. I never had the opportunity to see her interiors (well, except in pieces after she was scrapped ) but from photos, she must have been just as spectacular inside as out.

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The EUGENIO C., being built as a 3-class ship, was much more broken up internally than OCEANIC, whose public rooms flowed more gracefully. But every time I was aboard EUGENIO, I was impressed by the design and the color scheme, even into the 1980s (her public lounges were in fact named after various colors.) The decor, furnishings, even the chopped-up layouts seemed more typical of the classic Italian liners. She was never as Americanized of course as OCEANIC, and that kept her styling and flavor more original.

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Originally posted by NAL:
Another important difference is that Eugenio C had sheer whereas Oceanic had none....or so it appears.

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OCEANIC's sheer is noticeable below decks, where the accommodations are located, but not on the higher, public decks. EUGENIO's profile shows sheer on her higher decks as well, but on board, you never had a long, sweeping vista (even her enclosed Promenades were sub-divided) so you could not detect any sheer.