Regia Marina — Submarine class
Brin-class submarine
Brin-class submarines
The class in numbers
- 5 Completed
- 4 Lost
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- Built
- 1936–1939
- In commission
- 1938–1948
- Preceded by
- Archimede-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- Liuzzi-class submarine
- Builders
- 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
- 1,000 long tons (1,016 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,245 long tons (1,265 t)
- Length
- 72.47 m (237.8 ft)
- Speed
- 17.3 knots (32 km/h, 19.9 mph)
- Complement
- 58
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 4 stern)
- 1 × 100 mm deck gun
- 2 × twin 13.2 mm machine guns
Roster
Holding 3 of the 5 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian submarine Archimede (1939) | 1939 | 1939 | Sunk 1943 |
| Italian submarine Brin | 1939 | Scrapped 1948 | |
| Italian submarine Guglielmotti (1938) | 1938 | 1938 | Sunk 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Brin-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.