S.S. Pesaro

The Pesaro was originally built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg with the Name Moltke for the Hamburg Line. The liner was launched on August 27th, 1901 and sailed her maiden voyage on from Hamburg to Boulogne to Southampton, to New York on March 2nd, 1902. In 1906, she made her first Naples, Genoa, New York service run which it continued until 1914. She was interned at Genoa in 1914 and May 25th, 1915 was seized by the Italians and renamed Pesaro. She made her first voyage under the Lloyd Sabaudo Company on April 23rd, 1919 traveling from Genoa to Marseilles to New York. The vessel remained on the Genoa to New York service until she was scrapped in 1925 in Italy.

• Length: 160.20 m (525 ft 6 in)
• Beam: 18.98 m (62 ft 3 in)
• Propulsion: two funnels, two masts, Twin screws,
• Speed: 16 knots (18-19Mph)
• Capacity: 12,335 tons
• Occupancy 390 1st class passengers, 230 2nd class passengers, and 550 3rd class passengers

Adolfo Fulgenzi (Born: 1904) left the port of Naples on this vessel on the 21st of March 1921 arriving in New York April 5th. He left Calascio, Italy for America where is Uncle Pietro Giampaolo was residing in Riverton, IL.