Submarine class
Archimede-class submarine
Archimede class
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navies
- Spanish Navy 2
Regia Marina 2 - Built
- 1930–1934
- Builders
- Cantieri navali Tosi di Taranto, 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
- 970 long tons (986 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,239 long tons (1,259 t)
- Length
- 70.5 m (231.3 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 Archimede (1933) | 1933 | 1934 | Scrapped 1959 |
| Italian submarine Evangelista Torricelli (1934) | 1934 | 1934 | Scrapped 1959 |
| Italian submarine Galileo Ferraris (1934) | 1934 | 1935 | Sunk 1941 |
| Italian submarine Galileo Galilei | 1934 | Scrapped 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Archimede-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.