Regia Marina — Submarine class
Bandiera-class submarine
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 1 Lost
- 3 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- In commission
- 1930–1948
- Preceded by
- Pisani-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- Squalo-class submarine
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 925 long tons (940 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,080 long tons (1,097 t)
- Length
- 69.8 m (229 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 1 × single 102 mm deck gun
- 2 × single 13.2 mm machine guns
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 4 stern)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian submarine Ciro Menotti | 1929 | Scrapped 1948 | |
| Italian submarine Fratelli Bandiera | 1929 | 1948 | |
| Italian submarine Luciano Manara | 1929 | 1948 | |
| Italian submarine Santorre Santarosa | 1929 | Scuttled 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Bandiera-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.