Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Regia Marina — Submarine class

Glauco-class submarine

Glauco-class

The class in numbers

  • 2 Completed
  • 1 Lost
  • 1 Scrapped

Design and service

Type
Submarine
Navy
Regia Marina
Built
1931–1936
In commission
1935–1948
Builders
  • Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico, Trieste

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, surfaced
1,054 long tons (1,071 t)
Displacement, submerged
1,305 long tons (1,326 t)
Length
73 m (239.5 ft)
Speed
17 knots (31.5 km/h, 19.6 mph)
Main gun
100 mm (3.9 in)
Armament
  • 2 × single 100 mm deck guns
  • 2 × single 13.2 mm machine guns
  • 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 4 stern)

Roster

Vessel Pennant Commissioned Fate
Italian submarine Glauco (1935) 1935 1935 Scuttled 1941
Italian submarine Otaria (1935) 1935 1935 1948

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