Isonzo
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Isonzo
was built as a tanker in Riva Trigoso 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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