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infoweb@vivapunta.com. Thanks.Antonio Lussich
was born the 23 of June of 1848 and educated in a German School
until 14 years of age. Its education will become rich with time,
readings and trips, acquiring a culture so that, among other
things, will allow him to dominate five languages like his own.
 Being politically white,
he enlisted as soldier in the rows of the army that Timoteo
Aparicio raises in 1870 against the Government of General Lorenzo
Batlle, and in the Tricolor Revolution of 1872, he participates
in the battle of the Zumaca Carolina with the steam ship General
Artigas.
In 1879 he gets married with Angela Opening,
she will give him 10 children (9 women and 1 man). When dying
their father in 1889, Antonio and Manuel Lussich bought to their
brothers their parts of the shipping company that inherited from
their father, being Antonio with 60% and Manuel with 40%. The 5
of October of 1896 acquire 1,500 hectares in Punta Ballena and
initiate their great work. In 1917 the company business stop and
its Gray Fleet is acquired by the National Administration of
Ports. Passing away in 1928, when he was 80. According to his
desire, he was buried in Punta Ballena, between his plants and
the rumor of the sea.
The Navigator
Antonio D. Lussich was born in Montevideo. Son
of Don Felipe Lussich inherited from him his greater liking to
the sea and the spirit forged for the fight. With his brother
Manuel founded the famous fleet of rescues that made history in
the Rio de la Plata, on a period of more than forty years.
The company develops quickly and around 1882 it
has 15 schooners, ketches and sloops and their first steam, the
Silver, that was very famous between the Montevideans by its
incredible feats. New boats and tugboats will be acquired or
constructed in the dock of Lussich to cover crescents
necessities. The affluence of greater number of ships to the port
of Montevideo will do necessary to increase the fleet of boats
and tugboats, acquiring other steam ships that also will be
famous: Emperor, Atlantico, Huracan, Powerful.
 The prestige that the
company wins by its excellent services to importers, exporter and
shipbuilders, feeds its growth, arriving to have 15 steam and
tugboats and 70 boats of load. And at the beginning of the XXest
century it opens to a new activity, establishing a line of steam
for load and passengers between Montevideo, Maldonado and the
Dove, with the ships Tabare, Salvor and Cabo Polonio, removing
the distant territories like Rocha of its isolation. But they
were not the reviewed activities those that gave universal fame
to the Lussich company, but its active participation in the
rescue of lives, loads and ships.
The Rio de la Plata, of intense deal and
difficult navigation, was scene of numerous and tragic
shipwrecks. By 1870 they arrived near 1500 overseas ships at
Montevideo, with an average of 4 shipwrecks per month. These
numbers were increasing as the marine movement grew. And during a
long time Lussich will be the hope of hundreds of outcasts and
the guarantee of recovery of the goods in danger. There are more
than 200 the ships attended from 1882 to 1917, seven per year,
representing numerous capitals.
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