MAESTRALE (2)

Nome- Name: MAESTRALE (CLASSE MAESTRALE)
Nazionalità - Nationality: ITALIA - ITALY
Tipologia - Type: CACCIATORPEDINIERE - DESTROYER
Anno/data – Year/date: 11 gennaio 1943 - 11 January 1943
Luogo - Location: Biserta
Autore della fotografia – Photo’s author: ---
Collezione di provenienza – From the collection of: MAURIZIO BRESCIA
Note - Notes: VARATO NEL 1934 AD ANCONA. IL 9 SETTEMBRE 1943 VENNE AUTOAFFONDATO, MA RECUPERATO DAI TEDESCHI VENNE NUOVAMENTE DA LORO AFFONDATO NEL 1945 NEL PORTO DI GENOVA.
from an original in the A. Fraccaroli collection
The Maestrale lost her stern on 9 January 1943, hitting a mine 40 n.m. north of Biserta. She was escorting m/s Ines Corrado together with the destroyer Corsaro, that sank on the same mine barrage. Taken in tow by the torpedo boat Calliope - and later by two tugs - Maestrale reached Biserta in the morning of 11 January, when this photograph was taken. She was towed to Genoa in February to receive a new stern, but she was still undergoing repairs as of 8 September 1943; sunk by the Germans near the inner side of the breakwater, in front of "Ponte Eritrea" ("Eritrea Quay"), Maestrale was refloated in 1946-1947 and immediately broken up.