BOUND FOR CAPE TOWN

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​Two ships that appear in our new book Great Mediterranean Passenger Liners are the sisterships Africa & Europa of Italy's Lloyd Triestino.​

Smart-looking vessels that carried up to 450 passengers (in first & tourist class quarters), they were routed from Trieste, Venice & Brindisi to Port Said, Suez, Aden, Mogadishu, Mombasa, Dar-es-Salaam, Beira, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban -- then back to Beira and homeward. One of them sailed each month from Italy -- yes, Italian regularity!