FRANCES Y. SLANGER

FRANCES Y. SLANGER

 

Built 1927 by Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Monfalcone, Trieste (YN:160) as SATURNIA

GRT: 23940 / DWT: 6440

Length Overall: 191.9 metres x Beam : 24.3 metres

Service Speed 21.5 knots

Machinery: 2 shafts driven by a Burmeister & Wain SCDA diesel, engines replaced with Sulzer oil engines(circa 1934)

 

History

1927: SATURNIA : "Cosulich" Soc Triestina de Nav, Trieste

1932: SATURNIA : Italia SA di Nav, Trieste

1937: SATURNIA : Società Anonima di Navigazione Italia

Saturnia served into World War II for Italy and upon the Italian armistice with the Allies was delivered to the U.S. War Shipping Administration (WSA) in an arrangement made between Italy and Admiral Cunningham of the Royal Navy, approved by General Eisenhower.

Saturnia sailed from Italy to New York with an Italian crew and was delivered to WSA on 18 November 1943. The ship first served under a WSA agent after conversion into a troop ship allocated to U.S. Army requirements but in January 1945 began conversion into a hospital ship under U.S. Army bareboat charter from WSA. (WikiPedia)

1945: FRANCES Y.SLANGER : U.S.Army, USA

1946: SATURNIA : "Italia" SpA di Nav, Trieste

1965: Broken up at L:a Spezia by Terrestre Marittima

 

Footnote on the vessel’s name.

Frances Y. Slanger (born Friedel Yachet Schlanger, 1913 – October 21, 1944) was an American military nurse of Polish Jewish birth. The only American nurse to die due to enemy fire in the European theatre of World War II, she gained posthumous recognition for a letter she had written regarding the sacrifices of American soldiers which was published as an editorial in the military newspaper Stars and Stripes. (WikiPedia)

 

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