SS CRISTOFORO COLOMBO
Italia, Società di Navigazione
Published by Informe S.A. de Publicidad as promotion of Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, Pamplona (Spain),
The SS Cristoforo Colombo was an Italian ocean liner built at the Ansaldo Shipyards of Sestri Ponente (Genoa), and launched on 10 May 1953. It was 213.59 meters long and 27.41 meters wide and had a 35,300 turbine propulsion system capable of pushing the boat at a speed of 26.60 knots. It had capacity for 1,055 persons. She began her inaugural voyage to New York in Genoa on 15 July 1954, making stops in Cannes, Naples, Gibraltar and Ponta Delgada (in the Azores). Between 1973 and 1977 she was assigned to serve on routes between Italy and South America. In 1977 she was acquired by the government of Venezuela, she arrived in Puerto Ordaz in September of the same year and was converted into a floating hotel under the name of Residencias Cristóbal Colón. In 1981 she was sold to a Taiwanese company which, after attempting to resell it without success, handed it over to Yih Shen Steel Enterprise Co. Ltd. of Kaohsiung, which scrapped it between August and September 1983.
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