RIO PARANA & RIO DE LA PLATA: 1941 - 2 launch cachets for ships that went to war State Line The company chartered the ship

The company chartered the ship to Costa who turned around and sub-chartered her to the fledgling Princess Cruises

Italian Line - A fold-out (18" by 24") deck plan from 1962 of the SATURNIA

Besides the cover portrait of the handsome ship

and then sail P&O-Orient or Matson from the West Coast to New Zealand and Australia

RIO PARANA & RIO DE LA PLATA: 1941 - 2 launch cachets for ships that went to war State Line The company chartered the shipMoore McCormack Lines Launch cachets for RIO PARANA and RIO DE LA PLATA, two combo liners that went away to war and never sailed in their intended service. One eventually became a French supply ship; the other a long serving migrant liner. In the late 1930s Moore McCormack ordered four C 3 P combo liners to supplement their popular BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, and URUGUAY passenger ships. The design featured split uptakes to increase passenger space and a