Regia Marina — Submarine class
Italian submarine Guglielmo Marconi (1939)
Marconi class
The class in numbers
- 6 Completed
- 5 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- In commission
- 1940–1945
- Builders
- Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico
- Odero Terni Orlando
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,195 long tons (1,214 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,490 long tons (1,514 t)
- Length
- 76.5 m (251 ft)
- Speed
- 17.8 knots (33 km/h, 20.5 mph)
- Complement
- 57
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
- (4 bow, 4 stern)
- 1 × 100 mm / 47 caliber gun
- 4 × 13.2 mm machine guns
Roster
Holding 5 of the 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| German submarine UIT-25 | 1940 | Scuttled 1946 | |
| Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci (1939) | 1939 | 1939 | Sunk 1943 |
| Italian submarine Luigi Torelli | 1940 | Scuttled 1946 | |
| Italian submarine Michele Bianchi | 1939 | Sunk 1941 | |
| Japanese submarine I-504 | 1940 | Scuttled 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian submarine Guglielmo Marconi (1939) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.