Victoria
1939
(Risawoleska RI-77c)
- Type: Passenger / general cargo
- Displacement: 13,098 tons
- Dimensions: 540-8 x 69-11 x 23-10 ft
- Machinery: 4 Sulzer diesels (built by Fabbrica Macchine Sant'Andrea of Trieste), quadruple screw, 18,660 bhp = 22 knots
- Passengers: 463 (266 first class, 97 second class, 100 third class)
- Crew: 254
- Builder: Cantiere Riuniti d'ell'Adriatico, Trieste, 1931
- Service: Victoria built for Lloyd Triestino. Fastest motorship of her time. Maiden voyage 27 Jun 1931 Trieste-Venice-Brindisi-Alexandria. First voyage Genoa-Naples-Port Said-Aden-Bombay 24 Jan 1932. Swimming pool added in refit at Genoa in 1935. In Jan 1936 eastern service extended on to Colombo-Singapore-Hong Kong-Shanghai. Final line voyage ends at Genoa 20 Nov 1939 with neutrality markings shown here. Taken over as troop transport Jun 1940 and makes first trip to Libya. Troop-carrying capacity increased in refit at Taranto beginning Aug 1941. Torpedoed and sunk by British aircraft 24 Jan 1942 in the Gulf of Sidra while in a convoy from Taranto to Tripoli.
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