The Principessa Iolanda or Principessa Jolanda was a ship built by Societa Esercizio Bacini at Riva Trigoso for NGI (Navigazione Generale Italiana

Navigazione Generale Italiana

Navigazione Generale Italiana was an Italian shipping company formed in 1881 by the merger of I & V. Florio of Palermo and Raffaele Rubattino of Genoa...

) and intended for the South American service. It was launched on September 21/22, 1907 and was 450 ft in length and 9,200 tons. The ship got through the launch all right, but then something went wrong and it slowly rolled over and sank. The wreck

Shipwreck

A shipwreck is what remains of a ship that has wrecked, either sunk or beached. Whatever the cause, a sunken ship or a wrecked ship is a physical example of the event: this explains why the two concepts are often overlapping in English....

was later scrapped on the spot, although the engines were salvaged and reutilised..