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Photo: shippinglists.museum.vic.gov.au

T     O    S    C    A    N    A    -    Where is the Ocean liner?

From Genoa, Italy, the swedish missionaries Ernst n' Hulda Andersson with their daughters, Anna and Linnéa, left the port for Durban, RSA, in March 1948. According the facts found was the name of the Ocean liner: TOSCANA. 

This website Mission Xp [M'Xp] has a Documentary about missionaries, Ernst and Hulda Andersson and their family. They came from Smaland in Sweden and gave their lives for the people living in Transvaal, Mpumalanga, and Machadodorp 1920 to 1960. See: the Documentary.

The problem has been to find that Ocean Liner Toscana.  

F A C T S   F O U N D
The facts found are these:
TOSCANA  1944-1946  9442 
Built in 1923 as SAARBRUCKEN for Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen, 1935, sold to Italia Flotte Riunite, Genoa renamed TOSCANA, Toscana 1923.

Saarbrucken, 1935 purchased from North German Lloyd renamed Toscana, 1940 converted to Hospital ship, 1946 reverted to owners, 1962 scrapped. 9,442
1944 requisitioned managers became BI, 1948 returned to her owners, 1962 scrapped.

Comments
Originally built as the "Saarbrücken" for Norddeutscher Lloyd Line, she featured a "corrugated side" hull design which gave her a very distinctive appearance with a bulge amidships, just above the waterline. Sold to the Italian Government in 1935 and transferred to the Lloyd Triestino Line. Served as a Italian hospital ship during the Second World War.

In 1947, she returned to Lloyd Triestino to be refitted for 136 1st-class and 700 3rd-class passengers to serve in the Australian emigrant trade. She was renamed "Toscana", before entering service on the Trieste-Melbourne-Sydney route, in January 1948. Her route via the Suez included regular stops at Aden, Colombo and Port Said, where thousands of Greek-born Egyptian emigrants boarded for resettlement in Australia.

Withdrawn and broken up for scrap at Genoa in Feb 1962.

Q U E S T I O N by Mission Xp [M'Xp]:
Which was the Ocean liner Toscana goin'  from Genoa to Durban March 1948? We haven't found that Ocean Liner. The picture above can not be the right Toscana for this specific trip which brought the family Andersson to South Africa.

Are there any answers to receive from the seven Seas & professionals there or out in Cyber space?

Jonkoping in Sweden 12/10/2005
With best regards


Dag Selander
Editor
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