Regia Marina — Submarine class
Calvi-class submarine
Calvi class
The class in numbers
- 3 Completed
- 2 Lost
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- Built
- 1935
- In commission
- 1936–1943
- Preceded by
- Italian submarine Pietro Micca (1935)
- Succeeded by
- Foca-class submarine
- Builders
- Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano, La Spezia
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,525 long tons (1,549 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,028 long tons (2,061 t)
- Length
- 84.3 m (276.6 ft)
- Speed
- 16.8 knots (31.1 km/h, 19.3 mph)
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 4 stern)
- 2 × single 120 mm deck guns
- 2 × twin 13.2 mm machine guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian submarine Enrico Tazzoli (1935) | 1935 | 1936 | Sunk 1943 |
| Italian submarine Giuseppe Finzi | 1936 | Scuttled 1944 | |
| Italian submarine Pietro Calvi | 1936 | Sunk 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Calvi-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.