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)
