April 24, 1884, off the coast of Nice-Atibes. The steamship ERCOLANO was sliced in half by the screw steamer SICILIA.

I'm still working on this tragic shipwreck! From a list of ship repairs I find this:

Per la Scerpa e contro Scerpa tutto compreso. I'm stuck!

It's on a list of things like...new bowsprit, repair of external sheet iron, paint, labor.
Phyllis in Atlanta ;-(

I'm not sure why the word SPAM jumped ...

I'm still working on this tragic shipwreck! From a list of repairs I find this:
Per la Scerpa e contro Scerpa tutto compreso. I'm stuck!

Phyllis in Atlanta

O My!! Guess he was in bed sleeping when the 2 ships ran into each other! Thanx for clearing that up. Proves he wasn't at the helm doesn't it!
Phyllis

part of a sentence........ De Pace per giustificare che Miceli quando veniva dalle onde ritirato e salvato sul Sicilia, era vestito di sola camicia e calzonetti, per poscia conchiudere quando......
wow......long sentence!! Do you need more? It's something about the shirt the Captain Miceli was ...

what is a CALZONETTI shirt???????????
I'm still investigating the 1854 ship wreck off Villefrance. The Captain was rescued....wearing a Calzonetti shirt???? What IS that!!
Phyllis in Atlanta

I know...these are tough questions....but I'll throw one last one at you! The Ercolano was owned by the Neapolitan (or Mediterranean) Steamship Company. In 1850 I found a travelogue by a guy who was in Naples and saw a poster nailed up all over town, advertising a wonderful steamship....showing a ...

LAURA!! A closer look at that family tree.....and the Princess Canttoneo had another child that I missed earlier! N8 Giulio Raimondo b. 1/25/1848 and died………25/4/1854 !!!!!! He was with her when that ship went down!!!! Oh this story gets sadder and sadder!

Question #2 ... By some great luck, I discovered a book held by Harvard University....that has been digitized by Google books. It is the Defense of Captain Miceli of the Ercolano in that sinking. Written by his defense lawyer (in Italian) it gives us lots of details of the wreck. Harvard has now ...

Hello Again Laura. From the link you gave me to the family tree, I see that Nicoletta and Francesco are numbered N1 and N2....but on the next pages I see N3 James, N4 Giovanni, N5 Rose,N6 Ferinando and N7 Fabrizio! All of them born before she was lost on the Ercolano in 1854. So I'm thinking she had ...

WOW.....I sure came to the right place! You folks are terrific!!
I'll check out that link.....hope it gives me a few more details about her and her family. The ship that she was on sank in just a few minutes. There was a gentlemen on deck who offered to jump into the ocean with her and would help ...

April 24, 1854 Steamship ERCOLANO was sliced in half by the iron Steamship SICILIA at midnight....in a storm....off coast of Antibes and Villefranche. LOST in that disaster was "Princess Cattaneo and 3 attendants." A later inquiry came from...."Prince James Ruffo Espinosa." I haven't a clue how to ...