Agenzia Bozzo | Ancient Pictures of Camogli | Italy

A sail clear the nearly empty Port.

On the left of the picture we see the shipyard already enlarged and operating and, on the right side, the pier damaged by the sea storms, later repaired.

The 1st World War rendered the hires hazardous, but for this reason also more profitable and with the circumstance all what could float were armed and hired.

However, many were the sail ships that did not returned at home.

Here's what wrote Gio Bono Ferrari in its book "Sea Captains of Liguria":

"Camogli was the last country to equip tall sail ships: still in 1910 their citizens possessed intact and efficient a nucleus of great vessels of iron and steel; those same ones that five years later, during the first world war, silently were sacrificed: the first ship torpedoed from the Austrians in 1914 was the great camogliese sail ship "Sardomene" (see page Nr. 030A).

With this shipwreck ended also the long epic sail story of Camogli.