Folia (ship)
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The Folia was a passenger ship put into service in 1907 , which initially sailed under the Italian flag and from 1916 belonged to the British shipping company Cunard Line , which used it on the North Atlantic route. On March 11, 1917, the Folia was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of southern Ireland.
history
The 6,560 GRT steamship was built at the Sir James Laing and Sons shipyard in the northern English port city of Sunderland for the Italian shipping company Lloyd Sabaudo based in Turin . It was launched on February 28, 1907 and was christened Principe di Piemonte . The ship, 131.06 meters long and 16.06 meters wide, was built of steel and had two funnels, two masts and a single propeller . It was powered by two six-cylinder triple expansion steam engines that developed 869 PSi and allowed a top speed of 14 knots. The Principe di Piemonte was designed as a passenger ship for the North Atlantic route and designed for 120 passengers in the first, 50 in the second and 1,500 in the third class. On June 19, 1907, she sailed from Genoa on her maiden voyage via Naples and Palermo to New York .
On December 12, 1913, she left for her last voyage for Lloyd Sabaudo. In 1914 it was sold to the Uranium Steamship Company, which needed a replacement for the Volturno , which had sunk the previous year . The ship was given the new name Principello and left on February 14, 1914 for its first voyage on the route from Rotterdam via Halifax to New York. The last departure on this route was on September 8, 1914. On April 9, 1915, the ship drove for the first time from Avonmouth to Halifax and New York. The last descent on this route took place on May 26, 1915.
Cunard Line
In 1916 the ship was transferred to the British Cunard Line, which took over the holdings of the Uranium Steamship Company to compensate for previous war losses. In this train the ship was given the new name Folia . The Folia as mentioned by the Uranium Steamship Company primarily as a cargo ship used on the Avonmouth-New York route, but also transported passengers. Due to the state of war , the ship was equipped with a 12-inch stern cannon and was therefore considered a defensively armed merchant ship .
On March 11, 1917, the Folia was sunk four nautical miles southeast of Ram Head near Ardmore off the coast of the southern Irish county of Waterford by the German submarine U 53 (Kapitänleutnant Hans Rose ) by gunfire and a torpedo (position 51 ° 55 ′ N , 7 ° 35 ′ W ). The steamer was with 75 crew members and 4,400 tons of cargo on board under the command of Captain Francis JD Inch on a westbound voyage from New York to Avonmouth. Seven crew members were killed in the sinking. Inch had also been the captain of the Volturno on its last voyage in October 1913.
In 1977 parts of the ship were salvaged.