Italian submarine Comandante Cappellini
Service
- as Comandante Cappellini23 September 1939 — 10 September 19431,448 days of the war
- as UIT-246 December 1943 — 10 May 1945521 days of the war
- as I-50314 July 1945 — 16 April 194650 days of the war
- Name
- Comandante Cappellini
- Laid down
- 25 April 1938
- Launched
- 14 May 1939
- Commissioned
- 23 September 1939
- Fate
- Captured by the U.S. Navy in August 1945 and scuttled on 16 April 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,060 long tons (1,077 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,313 long tons (1,334 t)
- Length
- 73 m (239.5 ft)
- Beam
- 7.19 m (23.6 ft)
- Draught
- 5.1 m (16.7 ft)
- Speed
- 17.4 knots (32.2 km/h, 20 mph)
- Complement
- 58
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Comandante Cappellini was a Marcello-class submarine in service with the Regia Marina. Her keel was laid on 25 April 1938. She entered service on 23 September 1939, having been launched on 14 May 1939.
Her class ran to four ships.
The boat displaced 1,060 long tons surfaced and 1,313 long tons submerged. She measured 73 m (240 ft) long with a beam of 7.2 m (24 ft). Her designed speed was 17.4 knots, and she carried a complement of 58.
Her main battery was two 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She served with the Regia Marina as Comandante Cappellini until 10 September 1943. She then passed to the Kriegsmarine, serving as UIT-24 from 6 December 1943. She then passed to the Imperial Japanese Navy, serving as I-503 from 14 July 1945. She was in commission for 2,019 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 16 April 1946. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel-electric
- 2 × Fiat diesel engines
- 2 × CRDA electric motors
- Armament
- 8 × 21 in torpedo tubes (4 bow, 4 stern)
- 2 × 100 mm/47 caliber guns
- 4 × 13.2 mm machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian submarine Comandante Cappellini on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: unknown, maybe IJN or shipyards in Japan. — 福井静夫『写真日本海軍全艦艇史』ベストセラーズ、1994年。 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons