Qualla: SS Folia (1907) https://qualla.com/ss-folia-1907 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/x/ss-folia-1907-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: SS Folia (1907) https://qualla.com/ss-folia-1907 SS Folia (1907): Introduction https://qualla.com/ss-folia-1907/ Photo credit Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0. At 7:15 in the morning on 11 March 1917, the third officer of the SS Folia saw a periscope about 150 metres off the starboard side. He saw the wakes of two torpedoes. There was no time to take evasive action. One torpedo struck amidships, destroying two lifeboats and killing seven of the crew including the second officer. Four miles east-southeast of Ram Head on the Irish coast, in calm water on a clear morning, a Cunard Line cargo ship became a fatal statistic of the First World War. Seventy-eight survivors made it to Ardmore. The ship herself - originally Italian, then Dutch-American, finally British - sank with 4,400 tons of trench-digging machinery and shell cases aboard.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/x/ss-folia-1907-wp/gc4x-ss-folia-1907-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full SS Folia (1907): Three Owners, Three Names https://qualla.com/ss-folia-1907/ Photo credit Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0. She had been built as Principe di Piemonte by Laing James & Sons Ltd. at Sunderland, launched on 28 February 1907 and completed on 19 June. Her dimensions were modest by Edwardian transatlantic standards: 131 metres long, 16 metres in beam, 7.6 metres deep, with two triple-expans...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/x/ss-folia-1907-wp/gc4x-ss-folia-1907-three-owners-three-names.mp3 0:06 2 full SS Folia (1907): From Italian Migrants to British War https://qualla.com/ss-folia-1907/ Photo credit Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0. Her final voyage under Italian ownership ended on 12 December 1913. The Uranium Steamship Company bought her in 1914 to replace another vessel lost to fire. Now named Principello, she sailed Rotterdam to New York via Halifax from February 1914 onwards, then switched to the Avonmo...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/x/ss-folia-1907-wp/gc4x-ss-folia-1907-from-italian-migrants-to-british-war.mp3 0:06 3 full SS Folia (1907): Captain Inch https://qualla.com/ss-folia-1907/ Photo credit Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0. She was commanded on her last voyage by Captain Francis James Daniel Inch, who had survived the wreck of the Volturno in 1913 - a fire-stricken liner whose loss had killed 136 passengers and crew in the mid-Atlantic. Inch had spent four years between disasters. He had loaded 4,40...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/x/ss-folia-1907-wp/gc4x-ss-folia-1907-captain-inch.mp3 0:06 4 full SS Folia (1907): The Lifeboats Reach Shore https://qualla.com/ss-folia-1907/ Photo credit Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0. After the first torpedo struck, Inch ordered his men into the four remaining lifeboats. As the Folia settled in the water, the German submarine surfaced and circled. Her crew fired four shells from her deck gun and put another torpedo into the stricken ship. Then they departed. I...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/x/ss-folia-1907-wp/gc4x-ss-folia-1907-the-lifeboats-reach-shore.mp3 0:06 5 full SS Folia (1907): The Gun in the Square https://qualla.com/ss-folia-1907/ Photo credit Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0. The wreck lies in 36 metres of water four miles from Ram Head. In 1977, the salvage firm Risdon Beazley extracted a vast quantity of brass bars from the ship - the operation did serious damage to the wreck. Local divers cleaned up the remaining brass in the 1980s. Most of the Fol...

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