Italian submarine Galileo Galilei
Service
- as Galileo Galilei16 October 1934 — in service2,193 days of the war
- as X-2, later P771June 1942 — January 19461,189 days of the war
- Name
- Galileo Galilei
- Namesake
- Galileo Galilei
- Builder
- Tosi, Taranto
- Laid down
- 15 October 1931
- Launched
- 19 March 1934
- Commissioned
- 16 October 1934
- Fate
- Scrapped, January 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 970 long tons (986 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,239 long tons (1,259 t)
- Length
- 70.5 m (231.3 ft)
- Beam
- 6.87 m (22.5 ft)
- Draught
- 4.12 m (13.5 ft)
- Speed
- 17 knots (31.5 km/h, 19.6 mph)
- Range
- 10,300 nmi (19,076 km)
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Galileo Galilei was a Archimede-class submarine of the Regia Marina. She was named for Galileo Galilei. Tosi, Taranto laid her keel on 15 October 1931. She entered service on 16 October 1934, having been launched on 19 March 1934.
Her class ran to four ships.
The boat displaced 970 long tons surfaced and 1,239 long tons submerged. She measured 70.5 m (231 ft) long with a beam of 6.9 m (23 ft). Her designed speed was 17 knots.
Her main battery was two 100 mm (3.9 in) guns. Her machinery developed 3,000 bhp through two shafts.
She served with the Regia Marina as Galileo Galilei. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as X-2, later P771 from June 1942. She was in commission for 3,382 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in January 1946.
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
- 2 × single 100 mm deck guns
- 2 × single 13.2 mm machine guns
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 4 stern)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian submarine Galileo Galilei on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — http://www.naviearmatori.net/albums/userpics/10711/006~11.JPG — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons