SS Boccaccio

History
Name	1919: War Zenith; 1919: Tunisier; 1932: Boccaccio;
Namesake	1919: Tunisian; 1932: Giovanni Boccaccio;
Owner	1919: Lloyd Royal Belge, SA; 1930: CMB (Lloyd Royal), SA; 1932: Adria SA di Nav Mar; 1936: 'Tirrenia' SA di Nav;
Port of registry	1919: Antwerp; 1932: Fiume;
Builder	Lloyd Royal Belge (GB) Ltd, Glasgow
Yard number	11
Launched	12 November 1919
Completed	December 1919
Identification	until 1932: code letters MTUR; ; 1932–33: code letters NGQT; ; by 1934: call sign IBLE; ;
Fate	Sunk by sabotage, 18 November 1937
General characteristics
Tonnage	3,012 GRT, 2,045 NRT
Length	331.0 ft (100.9 m)
Beam	46.7 ft (14.2 m)
Draught	12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Depth	23.2 ft (7.1 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	1 × triple-expansion engine; 359 NHP
Propulsion	1 × screw
Speed	11.5 knots (21 km/h)
Sensors &; processing systems	by 1934: wireless direction finding

SS Boccaccio was a cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1919. She was a War Standard Type C ship: one of several standard designs issued by the UK Shipping Controller. Lloyd Royal Belge (LRB) built her in Glasgow. She was launched as War Zenith, but completed the following month as Tunisier. She was in Belgian ownership until 1932.

In 1932, Italian owners bought Tunisier, and renamed her Boccaccio. In 1937, she was carrying arms to the Nationalist part of Spain when a bomb exploded aboard her, sinking her off the coast of Brittany. One member of her crew was killed, but a Dutch cargo liner rescued 31 survivors.