The Italian passenger steamer Limbara was built with the shipyard number 292 at the Pointhouse shipyard by A. & J. Inglis in Glasgow and was launched in May 1910 under the name Tavolara . It was renamed Terranova in 1910 and Limbara in 1928 .
The ship was rebuilt and put into service on February 1, 1944 as the German hospital ship Innsbruck for 84 patients. It had 19 crew members and 21 medical staff. The ship was on 9/10. Sunk by an air raid on the pier in Trieste in June 1944 .
The wreck was lifted and repaired in 1946. It was operated again under the old name Limbara by the shipping company Tirrenia di Navigazione in Genoa until it was scrapped in January 1964.
↑ Volker Hartmann, Hartmut Nöldeke: Transporting the wounded across the sea. German hospital and wounded transport ships in World War II . Winkler, Bochum 2010, ISBN 978-3-89911-142-2 ( Small series of publications on military and naval history, vol. 21 ), p. 196f.