About 7,000,000 lire had just been spent on extensive improvements to the Conte Verde. A permanent pool was installed'in the ship and many of her cabins and public rooms were improved, during this summer in Italy.
The _18,765-ton: Conte- Verde was built at Glasgow in 1923 for the Compagnia d'Italia and for many years she ran between Genoa and Buenos Aires. After being placed on the Genoa-New York run for a time, she made her maiden trip to the Orient and Shanghai in 1933.
The Conte Verde boasts of having been the first ship in the Far East to be equipped with a long-distance radio-telephone set.
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