Italian submarine Jantina (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 Jantina? — 5 July 1941673 days of the war
- Name
- Jantina
- Pennant / hull number
- 1932
- Builder
- Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano
- Laid down
- 1930
- Launched
- 16 June 1932
- Fate
- Sunk by HMS Torbay, 5 July 1941 (1941)
- Status
- Wreck
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)
Jantina was a Argonauta-class submarine, operated by the Regia Marina. She carried the pennant number 1932. Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano laid her keel in 1930. She was launched on 16 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. 1,500 bhp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 673 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 5 July 1941. The wreck survives.
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 Jantina (1932) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.