£350
SS General Abbatucci Brass regimental cap badge of Napoleon’s 42nd Regiment of Foot Attached to the remains of a leather cap. The General Abbatuci was a 282-ton cargo ship. On 13th May 1869 she left the port of Marseilles on a routine trip bound for the port of Civitavecchia, Italy. Her cargo was thought to include several million French Francs and gifts for the birthday of Pope Pius IX from officials in France and possible pay for the French Army stationed in Italy. The Abbatuci was involved in a collision with a larger Norwegian vessel off the northern coast of Corsica. She was holed and sank with the loss of 54 passengers and crew.
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