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Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Italian passenger ship ss Principessa Mafalda 1908-1927

Archive Kon. Mij. De Schelde 513.725. Town Archive Vlissingen. 
Drawing made by T.S.H. Martin around 1909

Owned by the Navigazione Generale Italiana with as homeport Genoa, Italy and used on the line Genoa, Italy-Buenos Aires, Argentina. Launched by the Cantiere Navale di Riva Trigoso on 22 October 1908, completed on 9 March 1909, in the First World War used for accommodating Italian navy officers at Taranto and sunk near the Abrolhos Archipelago on 25 October 1927.