Submarine
Italian submarine Des Geneys
Pisani-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- Des Geneys
- Builder
- Cantiere Navale Triestino, Trieste
- Laid down
- 1 February 1926
- Launched
- 14 November 1928
- Decommissioned
- 16 April 1942
- Fate
- Scrapped
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 866 long tons (880 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,040 long tons (1,057 t)
- Length
- 68.2 m (223.8 ft)
- Beam
- 6.09 m (20 ft)
- Draught
- 4.93 m (16.2 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Complement
- 48
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Des Geneys was a Pisani-class submarine. Cantiere Navale Triestino, Trieste laid her keel on 1 February 1926. She was launched on 14 November 1928.
Her class ran to four ships. The class followed the Mameli-class submarine and was succeeded by the Bandiera-class submarine.
The boat displaced 866 long tons surfaced and 1,040 long tons submerged. She measured 68.2 m (224 ft) long with a beam of 6.1 m (20 ft). Her designed speed was 15 knots, and she carried a complement of 48.
Her main battery was one 102 mm (4.0 in) guns. Her machinery developed 3,000 bhp through two shafts.
She was decommissioned on 16 April 1942.
She was broken up for scrap.
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)
- 1100 hp (electric motors)
- Armament
- 6 × 21 in torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
- 1 × 102 mm deck gun
- 2 × 13.2 mm machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian submarine Des Geneys on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — NH 111441 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons