SS Francesco Crispi was an Italian passenger ship that was serving as a troopship when she was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine HMS Saracen on 19 April 1943 in the Tyrrhenian Sea 18 nautical miles (33 km) west off Elba while she was travelling from Livorno to Bastia in convoy, with the loss of 800 lives.

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