MV Saturnia

MV Saturnia was an Italian ocean liner later converted to a hospital ship. She was named after Saturnia. She has a sister ship MS Vulcania.[1]

MV Saturnia as a hospital ship in 1943.
History
Kingdom of Italy
Name: MV Saturnia
Namesake: Saturnia
Owner:
Builder: Cantiere Navale Triestino, Trieste
Laid down: 5 March 1925
Launched: 19 December 1925
Reclassified:
  • HMHS Saturnia
  • (1937-1943)
Homeport: Trieste
Fate: Confiscated by United States in 1943
History
United States
Name:
  • MV Saturnia
  • (1943-1945)
  • USAHS Frances Y. Slanger
  • (1945)
Namesake: Frances Y. Slanger
Owner:
Reclassified:
  • USAT Frances Y. Slanger
  • (1945-1946)
Fate: Transferred back to Italy in 1946
History
Italy
Name: MV Saturnia
Namesake: Saturnia
Owner: Italian Government
Acquired: 1946
Commissioned: 19 November 1946
Decommissioned: 1965
Status: Scrapped in 1965
General characteristics
Type:
Displacement:
  • 24,469 tons (Saturnia)
  • 19,637 (Frances Y. Slanger)
Length: 191.9 m (629 ft 7 in)
Beam: 24.3 m (79 ft 9 in)
Draft:
  • 29' (Saturnia)
  • 28' 9 (Frances Y. Slanger)
Depth: 17.1 m (56 ft 1 in)
Installed power:
  • 2x Diesel engines
  • 2x shafts
Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h)
Boats & landing
craft carried:		 28 x Lifeboats
Capacity: 156430 dwt
Complement:
  • 400 crew
  • 3714 passengers
  • 1618 patients

Construction and career

On September 21, 1927, the MV Saturnia left Trieste on her maiden voyage to South America via Naples and Marseille. On February 1, 1928, she left for her first Atlantic crossing to New York.

On January 1, 1937, the new company Italia Società di Navigazione was founded in Genoa, known in the English-speaking world as Italian Line, and which took over the holdings of the state-owned shipping company Italia Flotte Riunite. The Saturnia thus came to Italia Società di Navigazione in 1937.

USAHS Frances Y. Slanger docked at New York Harbor in 1945.

Interned in New York Harbor in May 1940, the ship was confiscated by the United States in December 1941 and converted into a hospital ship in 1945. On February 13, 1945, the ship under the name Frances Y. Slanger was commissioned as a hospital ship for the United States Army. It was named after Frances Y. Slanger (1913-1944), an American field nurse who was killed in an artillery attack by the German Wehrmacht on October 21, 1944 in Elsenborn, Belgium. She was the first American nurse to die from enemy action in Europe during World War II.[2]

In November 1946 the ship was returned to Italy and renamed Saturnia again. It was completely overhauled and from then on could carry 240 passengers in first class, 270 in second class and 860 in tourist class. On January 20, 1947, she embarked on her first post-war voyage from Genoa via Naples to New York. Her last journey on this route began on October 3, 1955. Then MV Saturnia was put on the Mediterranean-USA-Canada route and ran in North America to Halifax, Boston and New York, among others. On March 7, 1965, she set sail for her very last voyage across the Atlantic. On October 7 of the same year she arrived in La Spezia, where she was broken up shortly afterwards.[3]

See also

References
  1. Grace, Michael L. "HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LINE and THE MS VULCANIA". THE PAST AND NOW | News, Travel & Social History. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  2. "Italian Line - Italia Societa di Navigazione - USAT Saturnia - Frances Y. Slanger". www.timetableimages.com. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  3. "Saturnia". italianliners (in Italian). Retrieved 23 October 2020.
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