Elettra (1904 ship)
Elettra | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Rovenska |
| Owner | Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria |
| Builder | Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, Scotland |
| Launched | 27 March 1904 |
| Homeport | Lussingrande |
| Identification | HVNR |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Rovenska |
| Owner | 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 |
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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.