Submarine class
CB-class midget submarine
CB class
The class in numbers
- 72 Planned
- 21 Completed
- 2 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Built
- 1941–1943
- In commission
- 1941–1950s
- Preceded by
- CA-class midget submarine
- Operators
- Italian Social Republic National Republican Navy
- Builders
- Caproni
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 35 long tons (36 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 44 long tons (45 t)
- Length
- 15 m (49.2 ft)
- Speed
- 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h, 8.6 mph)
- Armament
- 2 x 450 mm torpedoes (could be replaced by 2 mines)
Sources
- Facts harvested from CB-class midget submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.