SS Ancona
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Ancona |
| Owner: | Societa di Navigazione a Vaporetti Italia, Genoa, Italy |
| Port of registry: |
 Italy
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| Route: | Naples, Messina, New York City |
| Builder: | Workman, Clark and Company, Belfast |
| Launched: | 1908 |
| Maiden voyage: | . |
| Fate: | Sunk, 8 November 1915, off Cape Carbonara by U-38 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 8,210 gross register tons (GRT) |
SS Ancona was an Italian passenger steamer, built in 1908 by Workman, Clark and Company, Belfast, and operated by the Societa di Navigazione a Vaporetti Italia, of Genoa.
She was torpedoed and sunk without warning on 8 November 1915 by SM U-38, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Max Valentiner off Cape Carbonara at 38°14′N 10°08′E / 38.233°N 10.133°ECoordinates: 38°14′N 10°08′E / 38.233°N 10.133°E. The u-boat was flying the flag of Austria-Hungary as the German Empire was not yet at war with Italy. Over 200 lives were lost.
In November 1915 U-38 caused a diplomatic incident when she sank the Italian passenger liner Ancona off the coast of Tunisia, while sailing under the Austrian flag. The Ancona, bound from Messina to New York City, was fully booked and over 200 lives were lost, including nine Americans. Coming as it did six months after the sinking of the RMS Lusitania off Ireland, the Ancona sinking added to a growing outrage in the US over unrestricted submarine warfare, and US Secretary of State Robert Lansing despatched a sternly-worded protest to Vienna.
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