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Building of the Giulio Cesare (21,782 grt in 1934, 634 ft. long) started already before WW1, but wasn't completed until 1922.
Her owner, Navigazione Generale Italiana, put her initially on the Genoa-New York route, then from 1925 on the route to La Plata.
When NGI became part of the new Italian Line in 1932, the Giulio Cesare was moved to the Genoa-Cape Town run.
Another reorganization of Italian shipping saw her transferred to Lloyd Triestino in 1937.
She sailed on the Far East route until laid up in 1940. She was sunk after Allied bombing of Trieste in 1944.

Her sister Duilio (23,635 grt in 1934, 635 ft. long) had a very similar career: while launched in 1916, she was completed only in 1923,
was transferred to the La Plata route in 1928 and then followed her sister
(except that she stayed on the Cape Town route with Lloyd Triestino) until the same tragic end in 1944.

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This page last updated November 27, 2005.