Regia Marina — Submarine
Italian submarine Barbarigo
Service
- as Barbarigo19 September 1938 — 19 June 19431,387 days of the war
Marcello-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- Barbarigo
- Namesake
- Agostino Barbarigo
- Builder
- CRDA
- Launched
- 12 June 1938
- Commissioned
- 19 September 1938
- Fate
- Presumed sunk, 17–19 June 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,060 long tons (1,077 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,313 long tons (1,334 t)
- Length
- 73 m (239.5 ft)
- Beam
- 7.19 m (23.6 ft)
- Draught
- 5.1 m (16.7 ft)
- Speed
- 17.4 knots (32.2 km/h, 20 mph)
- Complement
- 58
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Barbarigo was a Marcello-class submarine built for the Regia Marina. The ship was named after Agostino Barbarigo. She was built by CRDA. She entered service on 19 September 1938, having been launched on 12 June 1938.
Her class ran to four ships.
The boat displaced 1,060 long tons surfaced and 1,313 long tons submerged. She measured 73 m (240 ft) long with a beam of 7.2 m (24 ft). Her designed speed was 17.4 knots, and she carried a complement of 58.
Her main battery was two 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,387 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 19 June 1943. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel-electric
- 2 × CRDA diesels
- 2 × CRDA electric motors
- Armament
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 4 stern)
- 2 × 100 mm/47 guns
- 4 × 13.2 mm machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian submarine Barbarigo on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Archivio della Marina Militare Italiana — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons