Lazio - Palermo (1)

Navigazione Generale Italiana (N.G.I.) Line steamship built 1899 at Jarrow-on-Tyne by Palmer‘s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd. as the "British Princess" for the British Shipowners. Purchased by N.G.I. 1906 and sailed with emigrants and other passengers on the service between Genoa - Naples and New York. In 1913 she was renamed "Palermo" and operated on the Naples - Genoa - Halifax - Boston service. The ship was torpedoed near San Sebastian in 1916. This image is from an old postcard.