The wreck of the "Principe Umberto", the ship torpedoed on June 8, 1916, was found
The same Italian-Swiss engineer, Guido Gay, who in June 2012 had located the wreck of the battleship "Roma" at Asinara found her
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The wreck of the " Principe Umberto ", a majestic transport ship torpedoed on June 8, 1916, was found off the coast of Cape Ling , in the Albanian waters of the Otranto canal. An immense tragedy, the most serious in the Italian naval history of always, costing the lives of 1926 victims.
The Italian-Swiss engineer Guido Gay , the same who in June 2012 had managed to locate the wreck of the battleship "Roma" , sunk on 9 September 1943 by German aircraft in the Gulf of Asinara , found it at about 1,000 meters deep. .
Soldiers of the 55th Regiment of the Royal Army traveled aboard the “Prince Eugene”. The steamship, 145 meters long, 7,929 tonnes, capable of carrying 1,300 passengers, was part of a class of three units called "Regale", which also included the names of Queen Elena and King Vittorio.
The ship was torpedoed by an Austro-Hungarian submarine, while traveling in the Otranto channel.
(Unioneonline / vl)
