Fondo Egone Missio Archives

The Fondo Egone Missio (Egone Missio Archives) contains thousands of documents and photographs from 1909 to 1967 relevant to the design and construction of passenger ships, from the original drawings of Monfalcone yard no.

1 (the steamship Trieste of 1909) to all the reference papers of the design and construction of Home Lines SS Oceanic (1965).

Missio kept a day-by-day business diary from 1952 to 1967, in which details of his career and of the ships he designed can be found, including details of all the meetings between the parties involved in the conception and design of the SS Oceanic.

He designed several well-known passenger vessels, including MS Giulio Cesare (1951) and Oceanic (1965).

A book devoted to the career of naval architect of Egone Missio, and the ocean liners he designed at the Monfalcone Shipyard was published in 2009.