Verona (ship, 1908)
 The identical sister ship Ancona
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The Verona was a transatlantic passenger steamer put into service in 1908 for the Italian shipping company Italia Società di Navigazione a Vapore, which operated between Italy and the United States . The Verona was sunk by a German submarine on May 11, 1918 as a troop transport in the Strait of Messina , killing 880 Italian soldiers.
The ship
The 8,240 GRT steamship Verona was built at the Workman, Clark & Co. shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland for the Italian shipping company Italia Società di Navigazione a Vapore (called Italian Line ) and was launched on March 31, 1908. The 147-meter-long passenger and cargo ship, which was named after the city of the same name in northern Italy, was built for passenger traffic from Italy to the USA. The Verona had two masts, a chimney and two propellers and was designed for a cruising speed of 16 knots. The passenger accommodation was intended for 60 passengers in first and 2,500 in third class.
She had two sister ships , which were also put into service in 1908: the Taormina (8,282 GRT), which was built by D. & W. Henderson & Company in Glasgow and which was in service until 1923, and the Ancona (8,188 GRT), the also at Workman, Clark and which was sunk on November 8, 1915 with the loss of 208 civilian passengers and crew members in the Mediterranean by a German submarine .
Completed in May 1908, the Verona left Genoa on June 19, 1908 on her maiden voyage via Naples to New York and Philadelphia . From 1909, 120 passengers could be carried in first class, and from 1910 the passenger accommodation was designed for 60 passengers in first and 120 in second class. On August 25, 1911, the Verona cast off for her last voyage to New York and Philadelphia. It was then used as a troop transport in the Italo-Turkish War .
In 1913 the Verona was taken over by the shipping company Navigazione Generale Italiana and set off on March 9, 1913 for her first voyage for the new owners from Genoa via Naples and Palermo to New York. On March 4, 1917, she ran out of this route for the last time. On May 11, 1918, the Verona was torpedoed on a troop voyage from Genoa by the German submarine UC 52 (Oberleutnant zur See Hellmuth von Doemming) near the headland of Capo Peloro in the Strait of Messina and sunk. 880 Italian soldiers and crew members lost their lives.
Web links
- Short description of the ship in The Ships List (center)
- Entry in the submarine database (with picture)