Navigazione Generale Italiana (N.G.I.): A line issued postcard with a portrait of COLOMBO, black smoke belching from her oil burning boilers. The ship was built first as a cargo carrier, then converted into a passenger ship holding around 800 First and Second class passengers and 2,000 in Third. In the late 1920s she began sailing to South America. In 1941, when the Italian naval port of Massawa, Eritrea, was taken over by British forces, the COLOMBO was blown up by her crew. This line issued postcard is unposted but has a short message written on back.