SS Bosnia (1898)

SS Bosnia was an Italian cargo liner built in the 1890s that was shelled and sunk by a German submarine in the Mediterranean during World War I. Bosnia had a tonnage of 2,561 gross register tons (GRT) and had a length between perpendiculars of 97.9 meters (321 ft 2 in).

She had a single triple-expansion steam engine, rated at 220 nominal horsepower, that drove one propeller shaft at a maximum speed of 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph).

[1] By 1915 Bosnia was owned by the Societa Italiana Di Servizi Marittimi, based in Venice.

[2] On 3 March the ship pulled off the French armored cruiser Amiral Charner after the warship had run aground under enemy fire off Dedeagatch, Bulgaria.

[3] Eight months later, Bosnia was sunk by the guns of the Imperial German Navy submarine U-34 some 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) north-northeast of Derna, Italian Libya, at coordinates 33°32′N 23°10′E / 33.533°N 23.167°E / 33.533; 23.167.