SS Re Umberto was an Italian passenger ship laid down in 1892 at the Ansaldo shipyard in Genoa and completed the same year. She was 101 metres long with a beam of 12.3 metres, measured 3,164 gross register tons, and had one triple-expansion steam engine of 250 nominal horsepower driving a single screw, with a top speed of 12 knots, two masts and one funnel. She served as a passenger ship under various owners until she was chartered as a troopship after Italy entered the First World War. On 3 December 1915 she left Taranto for Valona in Albania in a convoy with the troopship Valparaiso and four destroyers, carrying 765 men. As the convoy entered the Bay of Valona that night she struck a floating mine laid by the German submarine UC-14 and sank in about 15 minutes with the loss of 94 lives. Her wreck was found by Italian divers in August 2007.
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Re Umberto was laid down at the Ansaldo G. & Co. shipyard in Genoa, Italy in 1892 and was completed that same year.
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Re Umberto was laid down at the Ansaldo G. & Co. shipyard in Genoa, Italy in 1892 and was completed that same year.
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laid down at the Ansaldo G. & Co. shipyard in Genoa, Italy in 1892 and was completed that same year
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until she was chartered as a troopship following the Italian entry into World War I
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struck a mine laid by the German submarine SM UC-14 and sunk in the Adriatic Sea
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had one triple expansion steam engine producing 250 nhp
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Re Umberto was laid down at the Ansaldo G. & Co. shipyard in Genoa, Italy in 1892 and was completed that same year.
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Re Umberto was laid down at the Ansaldo G. & Co. shipyard in Genoa, Italy in 1892 and was completed that same year.
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SS Re Umberto was an Italian passenger ship that struck a mine laid by the German submarine SM UC-14 and sunk in the Adriatic Sea off Cape Linguetta, Albania on 4 December 1915 with the loss of 94 lives, while she was travelling from Taranto, Italy to Valona, Albania.
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