Old photographs of the Nemi ships

Here are some photographs that I found online about the massive pleasure barges of Caligula, excavated from Lake Nemi during the 30s, on the orders of Mussolini, placed in a “Museum of Roman navigation” by him, and then destroyed in 1944 during the fighting.  Worth looking at… and feeling sad about.

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There were two barges, each in its own museum.  I’m not sure which is which in these photographs.
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The hull of this one seems deeper.

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The same image, with some processing, I think.

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Visitors queue to see the immense hulk.

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In the museum.

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End on.

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A side shot of the bow.

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Really very deep hull, this.

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Mussolini comes with his Fascists to open the museum.  Little did he know…

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