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Actions Displays	Lido Fleet : Italian Line Passenger Ships & Services Remove from selection Add to selection TitleThe Lido Fleet : Italian Line Passenger Ships & Services Author Peter C. Kohler (author)‎ Place of publicationAlexandria PublisherSeadragon Year of publication1998 Period19th century20th century Pagination429 p. IllustrationsIllus., black and white photos Dimensions21.5 x 28 cm Materialbook Class numberHE945.L86 1998 ISBN0-9663052-0-5 NotesThe Brunel Institute SubjectItaly, passenger ships, ocean travel, shipping Italia Società per Azioni di Navigazione's ("Italian Line") 45 years of passenger service pales against the century-and-a-half traditions of P&O and Cunard. Yet Italia inherited a venerable and honorable legacy of Italian steam navigation-what Mussolini consolidated in 1932 was built on a hundred-year-old foundation of Italian maritime enterprise and achievement by Raffaele Rubattino, Vincenzo Florio and Antonio Cosulich, through whose vision the Italian tricolor was nailed to the highest mast of passenger shipping. A creation of the Fascist corporate state, Italia was its proudest symbol, yet its greatest triumph came after the devastation of the Second World War when The Renaissance Fleet represented Italy's postwar recovery. And the untimely end of Italia's passenger services in 1977 was the culmination of a troubled transition from crossing to cruising, and from vital services to floating works project.

TitleThe Lido Fleet : Italian Line Passenger Ships & Services

Author

Place of publicationAlexandria

Year of publication1998

Period19th century20th century

Pagination429 p.

IllustrationsIllus., black and white photos

Dimensions21.5 x 28 cm

Materialbook

Class numberHE945.L86 1998

ISBN0-9663052-0-5

NotesThe Brunel Institute

Italia Società per Azioni di Navigazione's ("Italian Line") 45 years of passenger service pales against the century-and-a-half traditions of P&O and Cunard. Yet Italia inherited a venerable and honorable legacy of Italian steam navigation-what Mussolini consolidated in 1932 was built on a hundred-year-old foundation of Italian maritime enterprise and achievement by Raffaele Rubattino, Vincenzo Florio and Antonio Cosulich, through whose vision the Italian tricolor was nailed to the highest mast of passenger shipping. A creation of the Fascist corporate state, Italia was its proudest symbol, yet its greatest triumph came after the devastation of the Second World War when The Renaissance Fleet represented Italy's postwar recovery. And the untimely end of Italia's passenger services in 1977 was the culmination of a troubled transition from crossing to cruising, and from vital services to floating works project.