Regia Marina — Submarine
1932
Italian submarine Jalea (1932)
- Displacement
- 650 long tons (660 t)
- Length
- 61.5 m (201.8 ft)
- Beam
- 5.7 m (18.7 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Service
- as Jalea? — 1 February 19482,193 days of the war
Argonauta-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- Jalea
- Pennant / hull number
- 1932
- Builder
- Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano
- Laid down
- 1930
- Launched
- 15 June 1932
- Fate
- Discarded, 1 February 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 650 long tons (660 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 800 long tons (813 t)
- Length
- 61.5 m (201.8 ft)
- Beam
- 5.7 m (18.7 ft)
- Draught
- 4.7 m (15.4 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Jalea was a Argonauta-class submarine built for the Regia Marina. She carried the pennant number 1932. Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano laid her keel in 1930. She was launched on 15 June 1932.
Seven ships of the class were built. The class followed the Argo-class submarine and was succeeded by the Sirena-class submarine.
The boat displaced 650 long tons surfaced and 800 long tons submerged. She measured 61.5 m (202 ft) long with a beam of 5.7 m (19 ft). Her designed speed was 14 knots.
Her main battery was one 102 mm (4.0 in) guns. Her machinery developed 1,500 bhp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
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
- 1500 bhp (diesels)
- 800 hp (electric motors)
- Armament
- 1 × single 102 mm deck gun
- 2 × single 13.2 mm machine guns
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian submarine Jalea (1932) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.