Elbano Gasperi Juminda

Shipyard manufacturer: OTO (Odero) Genoa
Year built: 1928
tonnage: 741.67 (gross), 442.41 (net)
Length overall: 59.98 metres
Maximum width: 8.63 meters
Apparatus engine CV: 167 (Nominal), 900 (listed) with driving steam Dual expansion, reaching 2 clindri
Passengers: 357 (summer), 205 (winter)
entered into service in May 1928

Sunk October 23, 1943

History

The Italian ship Elbano Gasperi was launched by Cantieri Navali Odero of Genoa on April 24, 1928, on behalf of the company Navigation Tuscany. It was a small ship for the passenger service between the Island of Elba, Piombino and other islands of Toscano. After the Sept. 8, 1943, with the entry into the war, the Royal Navy seized to use as a mine-laying with the new name "F8". On 25 September 1943 the captain of corvette Karl Friedrich Brill, Kriegsmarine, received the order to capture the ship anchored in the port of Portoferraio, was the Elbano Gasperi.
The confiscated ship was renamed "Juminda" and put at the service of the German navy based in La Spezia. The name must Commander Karl Friederich Brill, reduce the command of another mine-laying which had just finished construction of a line of mine (called precisely Juminda) in the Sea of Finland, to block the Soviet Navy.
Was sunk to 1.45 hours of 23 October 1943 off Porto Santo Stefano, for the action of three MS Americans of the 15th Squadron MTB coming from the base of La Maddalena. The PT 212, 206 PT, PT 216 that night launched against the hull of Juminda a series of torpedoes, but the PT212 only 2 hits with torpedoes centering the stern of the vessel. The explosion had flip affondandola in less than a minute.
A photograph of Pt 212 that struck the Juminda with
2 torpedoes
On that night killed more than 60 sailors Germans, while only sixteen of them were saved and landed in Porto S. Stephen, the body of Captain Karl Friedrich Brill was found in the sea two days later and buried with military honors on October 27, 1943 in the cemetery of Orbetello then be transferred into the German cemetery of Pomezia.
The superstructure of the ship rose from a muddy seabed around 95 mt. For about 11 m. The wreck is divided into 2 main sections that are 80 meters. Of each other along a route of 133 °. Around the wreck several metal structures lie scattered on the bottom of a witness devastating explosion that brought Juminda to sink in a handful of seconds