SS Italia (1904)

Italia in civilian colours
History
France
NameItalia
NamesakeItaly
OwnerC Marsaillaise de Nav à Vap
OperatorFraissinet & Cie
Port of registryMarseille
BuilderCie Française de Nav et de Construction Nav, Nantes
Completed1904
Identification
Fatesunk by torpedo, 1917
General characteristics
Typepassenger ship
Tonnage1,305 GRT, 485 NRT
Length260.7 ft (79.5 m)
Beam28.5 ft (8.7 m)
Depth16.2 ft (4.9 m)
Decks1
Installed power305 NHP
Propulsion
Speed16 knots (30 km/h)

SS Italia was a French passenger steamship that was built as a civilian ship in 1904, requisitioned by the French Navy in the First World War as an armed boarding steamer, and sunk by an Austro-Hungarian Navy U-boat in 1917.