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SS "Rex was an Italian ocean liner launched in 1931.&lt;ref name="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,930095,00.html"&gt;&lt;/ref&gt; She held the westbound Blue Riband between 1933 and 1935. Originally built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) as SS "Guglielmo Marconi, its state-ordered merger with the Lloyd Sabaudo line meant that the ship sailed for the newly created "Italia Flotta Riunite" (Italian Line).