Italian submarine Aradam

600-Serie Adua-class submarine

Service

Regia Marina as Aradam16 January 1937 — September 19431,488 days of the war

600-Serie Adua-class submarine Particulars

Name: Aradam
Namesake: Amba Aradam
Builder: CRDA, Monfalcone
Laid down: 14 February 1936
Launched: 18 October 1936
Commissioned: 16 January 1937
Fate: Scuttled September 1943
Refloated by Germany
Sunk by Allied aircraft 4 September 1944 (1943)
Status: Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 680 long tons (691 t)
Displacement, submerged: 844 long tons (858 t)
Length: 60.18 m (197.4 ft)
Beam: 6.45 m (21.2 ft)
Draught: 4.6 m (15.1 ft)
Speed: 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
Range: 3,180 nmi (5,889 km)
Complement: 44
Main gun: 100 mm (3.9 in)

Aradam was a 600-Serie Adua-class submarine, operated by the Regia Marina. The ship was named after Amba Aradam. Her keel was laid at CRDA, Monfalcone on 14 February 1936. She entered service on 16 January 1937, having been launched on 18 October 1936.

Her class ran to 17 ships. The class followed the Perla-class submarine and was succeeded by the Acciaio-class submarine.

The boat displaced 680 long tons surfaced and 844 long tons submerged. She measured 60.2 m (197 ft) long with a beam of 6.5 m (21 ft). Her designed speed was 14 knots, and she carried a complement of 44.

Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.

She was in commission for 1,488 days of the Second World War.

She was scuttled in September 1943, at 42°40′N 4°25′E. The wreck survives.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 CRDA diesel engines
2 CRDA electric engines
Armament: 1 × 100 mm / 47 caliber deck gun
2 x 1 – 13.2mm Breda machine guns
6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 forward, 2 aft)
12 × torpedoes

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from Italian submarine Aradam on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Unknown author — http://www.betasom.it — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons