Regia Marina — Submarine class
Argo-class submarine
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 1 Lost
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- Built
- 1936
- In commission
- 1937–1943
- Builders
- Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Monfalcone
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 780 long tons (793 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,000 long tons (1,016 t)
- Length
- 63.15 m (207.2 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
- Armament
- 1 × single 100 mm deck gun
- 4 × single 13.2 mm machine guns
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian submarine Argo (1936) | 1936 | 1936 | Scuttled 1943 |
| Italian submarine Velella (1936) | 1936 | 1936 | Sunk 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Argo-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.