SS Rex
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The SS Rex was an Italian ocean liner that was launched in 1931. She held the west bound Blue Riband between 1933 and 1935. In 1938, in a demonstration of U.S. air power, B-17A bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps intercepted the Rex at sea in a highly publicized event.
She was sunk by British bombers in 1944.
It is featured in the Fellini film Amarcord.
S.S. Rex was also the name of a gambling ship operated by mobster Tony Cornero and anchored off Santa Monica Bay in California from 1938 to 1939
