Italian submarine Beilul

600-Serie Adua-class submarine

Service

Regia Marina as Beilul14 September 1938 — May 19441,731 days of the war

600-Serie Adua-class submarine Particulars

Name: Beilul
Namesake: Beilul
Builder: OTO
Laid down: 2 July 1937
Launched: 22 May 1938
Commissioned: 14 September 1938
Fate: Sunk, May 1944 (1944)
Status: Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 680 long tons (691 t)
Displacement, submerged: 844 long tons (858 t)
Length: 60.18 m (197.4 ft)
Beam: 6.45 m (21.2 ft)
Draught: 4.7 m (15.4 ft)
Speed: 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
Range: 3,180 nmi (5,889 km)
Complement: 44
Main gun: 100 mm (3.9 in)

Beilul was a 600-Serie Adua-class submarine, operated by the Regia Marina. The ship was named after Beilul. OTO laid her keel on 2 July 1937. She entered service on 14 September 1938, having been launched on 22 May 1938.

Her class ran to 17 ships. The class followed the Perla-class submarine and was succeeded by the Acciaio-class submarine.

The boat displaced 680 long tons surfaced and 844 long tons submerged. She measured 60.2 m (197 ft) long with a beam of 6.5 m (21 ft). Her designed speed was 14 knots, and she carried a complement of 44.

Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns. Her machinery developed 1,200 bhp.

She was in commission for 1,731 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk in May 1944, at 32°40′N 28°10′E. The wreck survives.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: Diesel-electric
2 × FIAT diesel engines
2 × Marelli electric motors
Power: 1200 bhp (diesels)
800 hp (electric motors)
Armament: 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
1 × 100 mm / 47 caliber deck gun
2 x 1 – 13.2 mm anti-aircraft guns

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from Italian submarine Beilul on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Unknown author — http://www.naviearmatori.net/ita/foto-169990-4.html — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons