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S.S. "Principe Umberto" Half-Scale Model

Credit to Alex1871 for the engines, thumbnails and lighting.

1:2 scale model. Head to the stern-most deckhouse and open the hatch to captain her.
Requires Infinite electricity.
This is the 1908-1912 Pre-refit version.




Principe Umberto was built in 1908 by the Cantieri Navali del Tirreno in Palermo for the Navigazione Generale Italiana, a company that sailed to Mediterranean and Black Sea ports, as well as passenger service to North and South America.

She was 145.1 meters (476 ft 1 in) long (pp) with a beam of 16.3 meters (53 ft 6 in). She was powered by two quadruple expansion steam engines that moved her at up to 16 knots (30 km/h).

Following her maiden voyage she operated mostly on the South Atlantic run to South America, and received a major refit in 1912 enclosing the forward section of her bridge and many more interior changes. During World War I, the ship was employed as an armed merchant cruiser to transport men and materiel in support of Italy.

On 8 June 1916, Principe Umberto and another transport, the Ravenna, were carrying the 55th Infantry Regiment (col. Ernesto Piano) back from Albania to Italy, under the escort of the Italian scout cruiser Libia and four Regia Marina destroyers.
The Austro-Hungarian U-boat U-5, under the command of Friedrich Schlosser, launched a torpedo attack that successfully hit the Italian ship. Principe Umberto went down quickly with the loss of 1,926 men