The necessary permission was granted thanks to intervention by Josip Broz Tito following efforts by the then Foreign Minister, Antonio Segni, who would later become President of Italy. The ship was returned to Italy in 1962 having been re-floated and towed to the shipyard at San Rocco di Muggia near Trieste. However, the planned restoration stalled and the hulk was still languishing in the bay five years later. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications prepared a study for a reconstruction but the high cost resulted in a postponement and eventual cancellation of the project. Locations of salvaged sections of the dismembered yacht With all hope of a restoration lost it was decided that the remains of Elettra would be cut up and parts distributed around Italy to places that had been associated with Marconi and his work. The breaking up of the yacht started in April 1977, the largest section recovered being the bow ('la prua'), which now sits in the middle of a roundabout in the AREA Science Park at Trieste. The locations of this and of other sections, including the whereabouts of Marconi's wireless equipment, are detailed on pages 33–43 of the publication Marconi e lo yacht Elettra. References Sources Migliorini, Nanni, Iacomino. Sasso e Dintorni, Anno VIII, No 24, Città de Sasso. Goodwin, WD (1995) "One Hundred Years of Maritime Radio", Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow Associazione Marinara 'Aldebaran' Trieste, 12 October 2000. Further reading Relatives and company publications Bussey, Gordon, Marconi's Atlantic Leap, Marconi Communications, 2000. Isted, G.A., Guglielmo Marconi and the History of Radio – Part I, General Electric Company, p.l.c., GEC Review, Volume 7, No. 1, p45, 1991, Isted, G.A., Guglielmo Marconi and the History of Radio – Part II, General Electric Company, p.l.c., GEC Review, Volume 7, No. 2, p110, 1991, Marconi, Degna, My Father, Marconi, James Lorimer & Co, 1982. (Italian version): Marconi, mio padre, Di Renzo Editore, 2008, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Year book of wireless telegraphy and telephony, London: Published for the Marconi Press Agency Ltd., by the St. Catherine Press / Wireless Press. LCCN 14017875 sn 86035439 Simons, R.W., Guglielmo Marconi and Early Systems of Wireless Communication, General Electric Company, p.l.c., GEC Review, Volume 11, No. 1, p37, 1996, Scholarly studies Ahern, Steve (ed), Making Radio (2nd Edition) Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2006 . Aitken, Hugh G. J., Syntony and Spark: The Origins of Radio, New York: John Wiley