Italian submarine Domenico Millelire
Service
- as Domenico Millelire? — 1 April 19431,308 days of the war
- Name
- Domenico Millelire
- Namesake
- Domenico Millelire
- Builder
- Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano
- Laid down
- 19 January 1925
- Launched
- 19 September 1927
- Decommissioned
- 1 April 1943
- Fate
- Scrapped
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,427 long tons (1,450 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,874 long tons (1,904 t)
- Length
- 86.5 m (283.8 ft)
- Beam
- 7.8 m (25.6 ft)
- Draught
- 4.7 m (15.4 ft)
- Speed
- 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h, 20.1 mph)
- Range
- 12,000 nmi (22,224 km)
- Complement
- 77
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
Domenico Millelire was a Balilla-class submarine of the Regia Marina. She was named for Domenico Millelire. Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano laid her keel on 19 January 1925. She was launched on 19 September 1927.
Her class ran to four ships. The Italian submarine Ettore Fieramosca followed.
The boat displaced 1,427 long tons surfaced and 1,874 long tons submerged. She measured 86.5 m (284 ft) long with a beam of 7.8 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 17.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 77.
Her main battery was one 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 4,900 bhp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 1,308 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 1 April 1943.
She was broken up for scrap.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; diesel-electric
- 2 × diesel engines
- 2 × electric motors
- Power
- 4900 bhp (diesels)
- 2200 hp (electric motors)
- Armament
- 1 × single 120 mm deck gun
- 2 × single 13.2 mm machine guns
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian submarine Domenico Millelire on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: The Air and Sea Co. — The Air and Sea , vol.2, no.6 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons