Italian submarine Ciro Menotti
Service
- as Ciro Menotti? — 1 February 19482,193 days of the war
- Name
- Ciro Menotti
- Namesake
- Ciro Menotti
- Builder
- Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano
- Laid down
- 1928
- Launched
- 29 December 1929
- Fate
- Scrapped 1 February 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 925 long tons (940 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,080 long tons (1,097 t)
- Length
- 69.8 m (229 ft)
- Beam
- 7.3 m (24 ft)
- Draught
- 5.26 m (17.3 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Range
- 4,750 nmi (8,797 km)
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Ciro Menotti was a Bandiera-class submarine, operated by the Regia Marina. She was named for Ciro Menotti. Her keel was laid at Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano in 1928. She was launched on 29 December 1929.
She was one of four ships of her class. The class followed the Pisani-class submarine and was succeeded by the Squalo-class submarine.
The boat displaced 925 long tons surfaced and 1,080 long tons submerged. She measured 69.8 m (229 ft) long with a beam of 7.3 m (24 ft). Her designed speed was 15 knots.
Her main battery was one 102 mm (4.0 in) guns. Her machinery developed 3,000 bhp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap on 1 February 1948.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; diesel-electric
- 2 × diesel engines
- 2 × electric motors
- Power
- 3000 bhp (diesels)
- 1300 hp (electric motors)
- Armament
- 1 × single 102 mm deck gun
- 2 × single 13.2 mm machine guns
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 4 stern)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian submarine Ciro Menotti on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Gino Vecchi — Private collection institution QS:P195,somevalue,P3831,Q768717 — CC BY-SA 3.0 it — Wikimedia Commons