S.S. Giulio Cesare
The S.S. Giulio Ceasre was launched February 7th, 1920 by Swan Hunter & Wingham Richardson, Ltd. in Newcastle, England for the Navigazione Generale Italiana line and used as a commercial passenger ship. Her maiden voyage was May 4th,1922 and was used on the Genoa-Naples-South America-North America routes. Until 1925, the S.S. Giulio Cesare and the SS. Duilio were the two largest ships in the Italian merchant fleet. In 1933, she was reconstructed and was to sail along the Mediterranena-South Africa service. In 1935, she collided with the German steam ship S.S. Barenfels in Gibraltar. The German crew were proved at fault for the collision and both the crew and the ship were detained. The S.S. Giulio Ceasare was sunk August 28th, 1944 by SAAF Beaufighters.
• Length: 193.9 m (636 ft)
• Beam: 23.2 m (76.15 ft
• Propulsion: Quadruple propellers, quadruple steam turbine engines, two funnels
• Speed: 20 knots (23-24 Mph)
• Capacity: 22,576 tons
• Occupancy: 244 1st class passengers, 306 2nd class passengers, and 1,800 3rd class passengers
Ancestors Traveled
Gaetano Lomedico (Born: 1853) left the port of Napoli, Italy in 1925 on this vessel sailing towards Brooklyn, New York.