Regia Marina — Submarine class
Argonauta-class submarine
Argonauta class
The class in numbers
- 7 Completed
- 6 Lost
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- Built
- 1929–1933
- In commission
- 1932–1948
- Preceded by
- Argo-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- Sirena-class submarine
- Builders
- CRDA
- OTO
- Tosi
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 650 long tons (660 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 800 long tons (813 t)
- Length
- 61.5 m (201.8 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 1 × single 102 mm deck gun
- 2 × single 13.2 mm machine guns
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian submarine Argonauta (1931) | 1931 | 1931 | Sunk 1940 |
| Italian submarine Fisalia (1931) | 1931 | 1931 | Sunk 1941 |
| Italian submarine Jalea (1932) | 1932 | 1932 | 1948 |
| Italian submarine Jantina (1932) | 1932 | 1932 | Sunk 1941 |
| Italian submarine Medusa (1931) | 1931 | 1931 | Sunk 1942 |
| Italian submarine Salpa (1932) | 1932 | 1932 | Sunk 1941 |
| Italian submarine Serpente | 1932 | Scuttled 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Argonauta-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.