Rex
1938
(Carlos Marquadt CM-230)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 51,062 tons
- Dimensions: 880 x 97 x 33 ft.
- Machinery: Steam turbines, quadruple screws = 28 knots
- Passengers: 2,358 (604 1st class, 378 2nd class, 410 tourist class, 966 3rd class)
- Builder: Ansaldo Shipyards, Genoa, Italy, 1932
- Service: Built for Italian Line, Italy - New York service. World's fastest liner,
1933-35. Laid up from 1940. Set afire and sunk by Allied bombers near Trieste, 8 Sep 1944.
Wreckage scrapped, 1947-58.
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