The captain and some of the officers of the cruise ship Thalia photographed on board in 1910. An original drawing of 1930 by Antonio Quaiatti for a poster advertising the express route between Italy and Egypt; differently from the contemporary proposal by Giuseppe Riccobaldi, in the foreground is portrayed the new motorchip Victoria, sporting black hull and funnels which, actually, will be painted white and yellow. Note the large number of steamships of the Lloyd Austriaco docked or anchored in the roadstead.

The cover of a menu of the steamer Saturno dated 10th March, 1900 (calcographic print in 3 colours and golden metallic ink). In 1842, two large and luxurious paddle-driven sisterships Imperatore and Imperatrice were launched in Trieste and, during that same year, a regular cargo and passenger line was opened to Dalmatia, the Greek islands, Egypt, Turkey and ports in the Black Sea.

Its main target was the publication of periodicals and books on different educational and entertainment subjects intended for a wide public. 2nd Route.

A nice brochure of October 1927, with its cover signed by Antonio Quaiat, advertising the express service to Egypt by the sisterships Helouan and Vienna. The first steamship of the Lloyd Austriaco, the Arciduca Lodovico, in a oil on canvas painted at the time of her entry into service in May 1837 on the Trieste-Istanbul route.

English version edited by Anthony Cooke.

Another early form of advertisement used by shipping companies was posters, hanging in public places (railroad stations, trams and buses, travel agents’ shops, etc.)

To illustrate its brochure of 1934 devoted to the services between Italy, Greece and Turkey, the Lloyd Triestino hired a renowned artist of Futurist imprint, Giorgio settala (1895-1960, born as Giorgio Hirsch); his monogram appears in both frames, in the lower left and right corners.

In 1852, the company ordered three 850-ton sisters Fiume, Jonio and Smirne from British shipyards, the first iron-hulled and propeller-driven merchant vessels to fly the Austrian flag. Regular passenger and cargo routes were started to the Middle and Far East, reaching parts of the Red Sea, the Indian peninsula and China and Japan. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 brought enormous benefits to the Lloyd of Trieste.

She was launched on the Thames on the 10th December 1836; she had a gross tonnage of 310 t, a lenght of 41,7 m and a steam engine of 100 HP. When the Lloyd started operations, the market was suffering following a period of famine and economic depression and also because it was a turbulent time of political instability in the Middle East. Search.

Access to account blocked. The Victoria in Trieste during her last days with Lloyd Triestino; subsequently she served the Venice-Alexandria route for the Adriatica Line.

The senior officers of the steamer Castore posing with lifering, spyglass, globe, stern emergency wheel and compass binnacle in a picture of late-XIX century. We offer a huge range of boats to hire from 50€/day. A brochure printed by A Lucini & C. in April 1937 to promote the express route between Genoa and Cape Town served by the steamships Giulio Cesare and Duilio. With the issue of Summer 1933, “Sul Mare” became the official magazine of the whole Italian Lines organisation and, as a result, many clever Trieste-based artists became appreciated (and employed) by other companies and achieved fame: Gianni Brumatti, Glauco Cambon, August Cernigoj, Marcello Claris, Marcello Dudovich, Ugo Flumiani, Giovanni Giordani, Lauro Laghi, Pietro Lucano, Guido Marussig, Argio Orell, Antonio Quaiatti, Giorgio Settala.

1965, 10th April: arrives in Trieste at the end of her last crossing from New York and is laid up. 1849 saw another milestone in the Lloyd’s history, when a third section was created: the sezione letteraria was mainly devoted to cultural activities. In 1951, the new sister vessels Australia, Oceania and Neptunia re-opened the express service to Sydney and in the following year two similar sisters, the Africa and Europa re-started the direct service to Cape Town. 1. apt22. Brochures are similar to booklets and consist of more pages, held together by metal clips or by other methods of binding.

In its pre-Italian days, the Lloyd Austriaco, although based in Trieste, was obviously strongly connected with the Austrian capital where many of the financial institutions supporting it were based: well-known artists from Vienna were working regularly for the Lloyd: Oscar Herman Lamb, Harry Heusser and Remigius Geyling.

This small poster of December 1937 was the work of Gino Boccasile who immagines one of the "Counts" of Lloyd Triestino in a Chinese harbour. The Victoria in Port Said, at the entrance of the Suez Canal which she regularly crossed on her long journey to the Far East. At the Beverello wharf of Naples are recognisable the sisterships Piemonte (in foreground) and Liguria.