Elettra
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History | |
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Name | Rovenska |
Owner | Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria |
Builder | Ramage & Ferguson Ltd. Leith, United Kingdom |
Launched | 27 March 1904 |
Homeport | Lussingrande |
Identification | HVNR |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Rovenska |
Owner | Sir Max Waechter |
Acquired | 1909 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Rovenska |
Owner | Gustav HF Pratt |
Acquired | 1914 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Rovenska |
Owner | Royal Navy – patrol & escort duties |
Route | Between England and ports of Brest and Saint Malo |
Acquired | 1914 |
Italy | |
Name | Elettra |
Owner | Guglielmo Marconi |
Route | Worldwide |
Acquired | 1919 for conversion to seaborne laboratory |
Homeport | Genoa |
Identification | Code letters and radio callsign IBDK |
Greater German Reich | |
Name | G-107, NA-6 |
Acquired | Requisitioned 1943 by German Kriegsmarine |
Fate | 22 Jan 1944 Destroyed at Diklo near Zadar by allied fighter-bombers |
Elettra was the name of Guglielmo Marconi's steam yacht – a seaborne laboratory – from which he conducted his many experiments with wireless telegraphy, wireless telephony and other communication and direction-finding techniques during the inter-war period.