Postwar Career
Hermitage was returned to the Italian Government in May 1947 and renamed SS Conte Biancamano, after which she served once more as a passenger liner until being retired in 1960. During her 1961 scrapping at the Italian port of La Spezia, her bridge superstructure was disassembled and shipped to the Museo della Scienza in Milano. This three-storey structure was reassembled inside a new pavilion and includes the pilot house, a few first-class cabins, and a circular ballroom.
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