The Conte Biancamano was a 23,225-ton liner that set out from Italy in 1940 on a Genoa-Naples-Panama-Valparaiso-Panama-Genoa voyage, but ended the trip unexpectedly in the Canal Zone, was detained, then seized, saw its passengers and crew interned, and the ship went the US Navy as a troopship for the rest of the war.
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