Inscribed: “Rex” No.1 View Hudson River Dockage NY City,”

The S.S. Rex (foreground) was an Italian Ocean Liner launched in 1931.  It held the Blue Riband (blue ribbon) title from 1933-1935, an award for the fastest passenger ship traveling across the Atlantic.  The pride of King Victor Emmanuel and then Mussolini, it was destroyed by Allied bombers in 1944.

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Steamship “Rex”

Harold Costain, 1934 
vintage bromo-chloride print 
11 × 14”