Regia Marina — Submarine
Italian submarine Ettore Fieramosca
Service
- as Ettore Fieramosca1930 — 1941849 days of the war
Italian submarine Ettore Fieramosca
Particulars
- Name
- Ettore Fieramosca
- Namesake
- Ettore Fieramosca
- Builder
- Tosi (Taranto, Italy)
- Laid down
- 1926
- Launched
- 15 April 1929
- Commissioned
- 1930
- Decommissioned
- 1941
- Fate
- Scrapped
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,530 long tons (1,555 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,094 long tons (2,128 t)
- Length
- 83.97 m (275.5 ft)
- Beam
- 8.3 m (27.2 ft)
- Draught
- 5.11 m (16.8 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Complement
- 78
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
Ettore Fieramosca was a submarine built for the Regia Marina. She was named for Ettore Fieramosca. Her keel was laid at Tosi (Taranto, Italy) in 1926. She entered service in 1930, having been launched on 15 April 1929.
The boat displaced 1,530 long tons surfaced and 2,094 long tons submerged. She measured 84.0 m (275 ft) long with a beam of 8.3 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 15 knots, and she carried a complement of 78.
Her main battery was one 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. She carried one aircraft.
She was in commission for 849 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1941.
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
- (surfaced/submerged) diesel / electric, 2 shafts
- 5200 hp / 2300 hp
- Armament
- 1 × 120 mm gun
- 4 × 13.2 mm machine guns
- 8 × 21 in torpedo tubes (4 bow, 4 stern)
- 14 torpedoes
- Aircraft
- 1 seaplane (planned, not operated)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian submarine Ettore Fieramosca on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Fieramosca_(sommergibile) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons