Regia Marina — Submarine class
Sirena-class submarine
The class in numbers
- 12 Completed
- 11 Lost
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- Built
- 1931–1934
- In commission
- 1933–1948
- Preceded by
- Argonauta-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- Perla-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
- 680 long tons (691 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 837 long tons (850 t)
- Length
- 60.18 m (197.4 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
- Armament
- 1 × single 100 mm deck gun
- 2–4 × single 13.2 mm machine guns
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian submarine Ametista | 1933 | Scuttled 1943 | |
| Italian submarine Anfitrite | 1933 | Sunk 1941 | |
| Italian submarine Diamante | 1933 | Sunk 1940 | |
| Italian submarine Galatea | 1933 | ||
| Italian submarine Naiade | 1933 | Sunk 1940 | |
| Italian submarine Nereide (1933) | 1933 | 1933 | Sunk 1943 |
| Italian submarine Ondina | 1933 | Sunk 1942 | |
| Italian submarine Rubino | 1933 | Sunk 1940 | |
| Italian submarine Sirena | 1933 | Scuttled 1943 | |
| Italian submarine Smeraldo | 1933 | Sunk 1941 | |
| Italian submarine Topazio | 1933 | Sunk 1943 | |
| Italian submarine Zaffiro | 1933 | Sunk 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Sirena-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.