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Old 05-04-2018, 08:28 AM
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At last, an ocean liner I always wanted to build. The Andrea Doria was such a lovely ship.

I actually saw the Stockholm at San Pedro about 20 years ago, though she was unrecognizable as the Italia Prima, her entire superstructure completely rebuilt. Amazingly, she still exists as the MV Astoria, though currently laid up and probably waiting to be scrapped. Still, that's an impressive career with 11 different names, 7 owners and 10 operators over 70 years. In contrast, the Andrea Doria was in service for barely 42 months.

And many Italians still have only one name for the old Stockholm, even when she was owned by an Italian company as the Italia Prima / Valtur Prima: "La nave della morte" (The ship of death). They mourn the Andrea Doria to this day.

David T. Okamura
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