Italian submarine Durbo

600-Serie Adua-class submarine

Service

Regia Marina as Durbo1 July 1938 — 18 October 1940413 days of the war

600-Serie Adua-class submarine Particulars

Name: Durbo
Namesake: Durba
Builder: OTO
Laid down: 8 March 1937
Launched: 6 March 1938
Commissioned: 1 July 1938
Fate: Scuttled, 18 October 1940 (1940)
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)

Durbo was a 600-Serie Adua-class submarine in service with the Regia Marina. She was named for Durba. Her keel was laid at OTO on 8 March 1937. Launched on 6 March 1938, she entered service on 1 July 1938.

17 ships of the class were built. 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 413 days of the Second World War.

She was scuttled on 18 October 1940, at 34°06′N 11°33′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 Durbo on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Unknown author — https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbo_(sommergibile) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons