Isonzo
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Isonzo
was built as a tanker in Italy in 1937 for Regia Marina,
the Italian navy. Under a journey from Cagliari to La
Maddelena in a convoy with the steamers Entella and Loredan,, she was attacked outside
Sardinia by the British submarine HMS Safari10.April 1943.
The submarine fired a total of ten torpedoes and sunk two
of the ships in the convoy, while the third was beached
and sunk later. Izonso went down in the deep after fifteen
minutes with a loss of four men from her crew, and another
eighteen missing. The wreck rest today on a depth of 39 to
57 meter.
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 Picture: Wreck of Isonzo From video by Joyce Schilperoord  Last updated: December 2016 |
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