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History
Owner
1910 Ferrovie dello Stato, Civitavecchia
1926 Cia Sardia di Armamento e Navigazione, Genoa
1937 'Tirrenia' SA di Nav
1940 Italian Navy requisition
1943 Seized by Germany 9/1943, Kriegsmarine hospital ship
1946 'Tirrenia' SA di Nav., Genoa
Builder A. & J. Inglis , Pointhouse, Glasgow, Scotland
Yard number 292
Launched 10 March 1910
Fate Sunk by air attack on 10 June 1944, raised and repaired. Scrapped at Palermo
General characteristics
Type Passenger ship
Length 153.9 feet (BP)
Beam 26.6 feet
Installed power Steam, triple expansion
Propulsion Single screw
Speed 12 knots
The Italian passenger liner SS Tavolara was built in May 1910. It was renamed in 1910 as Terra Nova and in 1928 as Limbara .[ 1] The ship was rebuilt during World War II and on 1 February 1944 commissioned as the German hospital ship Innsbruck . It was used for 84 patients. The ship was sunk during an air raid on 9–10 June 1944 at the pier in Trieste .
Merchant ships Warships Cancelled ships
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in June 1944
Shipwrecks
1 Jun: USS Herring
3 Jun: U-477 , WBS 2 Coburg
5 Jun: V 622 Almuth , USS Osprey
6 Jun: USS Corry , USS LCI(L)-93 , Minazuki , USS PC-1261 , HNoMS Svenner , V 421 Rauzan , HMS Wrestler
7 Jun: HMS Centurion , Empire Defiance , Hayanami , USS Susan B. Anthony , USS Tide , U-629 , U-955
8 Jun: Audacious , Harusame , James Iredell , Kazagumo , HMS Lawford , USS Rich , U-373 , U-441 , U-970 , West Grama
9 Jun: Courbet , Dover Hill , HMS Durban , Empire Bunting , Empire Flamingo , Matsukaze , USS Meredith , HNLMS Sumatra , Tanikaze , Z32 , ZH1
10 Jun: USS Glennon , Innsbruck , Mistral , Ro-111 , U-821
11 Jun: USS Partridge , Ro-42 , U-980
12 Jun: Kainan Maru , HMS Sickle , U-490 , V 206 Otto Bröhan , V 212 Friedrich Busse
13 Jun: HMS Boadicea , I-33 , Ro-36 , U-715
14 Jun: USS Golet
15 Jun: HMS Blackwood , M 507 , PA 1 , PA 2 , Shiratsuyu , U-860 , U-987 , V 202 Franz Westermann
16 Jun: I-6 , Ro-44 , U-998
17 Jun: Ro-114 , Ro-117
18 Jun: Albert C. Field , U-767
19 Jun: I-184 , Shōkaku , Taihō
20 Jun: Hiyō , HMAS Matafele
21 Jun: Bolzano , HMS Fury
22 Jun: Eurydice , I-185 , Sirène
24 Jun: Derrycunihy , I-52 , U-971 , U-1225
25 Jun: U-269
26 Jun: Aquileia , U-317 , U-719 , Harugiku Maru
27 Jun: Kizugawa Maru
28 Jun: V 213 Claus Bolten , Kondor , Nerissa
29 Jun: Toyama Maru , Tsugaru , U-988 , USS Valor
30 Jun: SS Nikkin Maru , U-478 , V 422 Kergroise
Unknown date: Bosna , USS LCT-209 , U-740
Other incidents