Train ferry “Secondo Aspromonte” crossing the Messina Strait, 26th October 1975
Owner: Italian State Railways (Ferrovie dello Stato)
Flag: Italy
Port of registry: Messina
Builder: Cantieri del Tirreno, Genoa
Gross tons: 1,593
Deadweight: 860
Length overall: 97.69 m
Max. draft: 3.785 m
Engines: 2 x 7-cylinder diesels, 2,500 b.h.p., by Franco Tosi S.p.A., Legrano
Speed: 14.9 knots
Passenger capacity: 1,000.
Completed 1948 as “Aspromonte” (the second ferry to bear this name; the first, ex-Scilla, was torpedoed & sunk in 1942)
Renamed “Secondo Aspromonte” 1949.
Modernised in 1979.
Withdrawn from service 1990.