Yard number 292 Length 153.9 feet (BP) Launched 10 March 1910 | Type Passenger ship Beam 26.6 feet Builder A. & J. Inglis | |
Owner 1910 Ferrovie dello Stato, Civitavecchia1926 Cia Sardia di Armamento e Navigazione, Genoa1937 'Tirrenia' SA di Nav1940 Italian Navy requisition1943 Seized by Germany 9/1943, Kriegsmarine hospital ship1946 'Tirrenia' SA di Nav., Genoa Fate Sunk by air attack on 10 June 1944, raised and repaired. Scrapped at Palermo | ||
The Italian passenger liner SS Tavolara was built in May 1910. It was renamed in 1910 as Terra Nova and in 1928 as Limbara. The ship was rebuilt during World War II and on 1 February 1944 commissioned as the German hospital ship Innsbruck. It was used for 84 patients. The ship was sunk during an air raid on 9–10 June 1944 at the pier in Trieste.
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