IL PIEMONTE - 5,601 tons. 118.65 x 15.97 meters (389.3 x 52.4 feet) 1 funnel, 2 masts. Single-screw, triple expansion engines, 13 knots. Built by Cantieri Navale di Muggiano, Spezia (engines by Richardson, Westgarth & Co. Ltd., Hartlepool). Launched 28-29 July 1901 for Luigi Capuccio & Co., Genoa. 17 April 1904, first chartered voyage for Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI), Genoa- Girgenti-Palermo-Naples-New York. 29 May 1906, last voyage for NGI, Naples-Palermo-New York (8 round voyages). 1908 PRESIDENT P. MONIT (chartered to Lloyd del Pacifico); reverted to IL PIEMONTE. 1916 SAN ROSSORE (Lloyd Sabaudo). February 1921, first voyage Genoa-Naples-Philadelphia. 6 May 1922, last voyage Genoa-Naples-New York (2 round voyages). 1929 EMILIA PELLEGRINA (Italian Line). 1928 JANUA (Italian Line). Scrapped in 1931. [N.R.P. Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway, p. 1116]

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