Submarine class
Adua-class submarine
Adua class
The class in numbers
- 17 Completed
- 16 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- In commission
- 1937–1947
- Preceded by
- Perla-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- Acciaio-class submarine
- Operators
- Brazilian Navy
- Builders
- OTO, Muggiano
- CRDA, Monfalcone
- Tosi, Taranto
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 680 long tons (691 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 844 long tons (858 t)
- Length
- 60.18 m (197.4 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Complement
- 45
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
- Armament
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
- 1 × single 100 mm / 47 caliber deck gun
- 1 or 2 x single 13.2 mm anti-aircraft guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from Adua-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.