SS Principessa Mafalda
Italian ocean liner, sunk 1927, 314 dead / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SS Principessa Mafalda was an Italian transatlantic ocean liner built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) company. Named after Princess Mafalda of Savoy, second daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III, the ship was completed and entered NGI's South American service between Genoa and Buenos Aires in 1909. Her sister ship SS Principessa Jolanda sank immediately upon launching on 22 September 1907.
Principessa Mafalda | |
History | |
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Italy | |
Name | Principessa Mafalda |
Namesake | Princess Mafalda of Savoy |
Owner | Navigazione Generale Italiana |
Port of registry | Genoa |
Route | Genoa–Buenos Aires |
Builder | Cantiere Navale di Riva Trigoso |
Launched | 22 October 1908 |
Completed | 9 March 1909 |
Fate | Sank on 25 October 1927 off the coast of Brazil |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 9,210 GRT |
Length | 463 ft (141 m) |
Beam | 56 ft (17 m) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Capacity |
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Notes | Two funnels, two masts |
On 25 October 1927, while off the coast of Brazil, a propeller shaft fractured and damaged the hull. The ship sank slowly in the presence of rescue vessels, but confusion and panic resulted in 314 fatalities out of the 1,252 passengers and crew on board the ship. The sinking resulted in the greatest loss of life in Italian shipping and the largest ever in the Southern Hemisphere in peacetime, with the ship that was called "the Italian Titanic".[1]