 On 19 December , Niobe ran aground on the island of Silba . Three days later , the British Motor Torpedo Boats MTB 276 and MTB 298 attacked the ship and hit her with two torpedoes ; nineteen men were killed in the attack . The Germans then abandoned the wreck , which was later cannibalized for spare parts by the Yugoslav Partisans . The wreck remained on Silba until 1947 , when salvage operations began . She was raised and broken up for scrap by 1949 . 
