Italian submarine Nereide (1933)

Sirena-class submarine

Displacement: 680 long tons (691 t)
Length: 60.18 m (197.4 ft)
Beam: 6.45 m (21.2 ft)
Speed: 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
Main gun: 100 mm (3.9 in)

Service

Regia Marina as Nereide? — 13 July 19431,411 days of the war

Sirena-class submarine Particulars

Name: Nereide
Pennant / hull number: 1933
Namesake: Nereid
Builder: Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Monfalcone
Laid down: 1931
Launched: 25 May 1933
Fate: Sunk, 13 July 1943 (1943)
Status: Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced: 680 long tons (691 t)
Displacement, submerged: 837 long tons (850 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: 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
Main gun: 100 mm (3.9 in)

Nereide was a Sirena-class submarine of the Regia Marina. She carried the pennant number 1933. The ship was named after Nereid. Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Monfalcone laid her keel in 1931. She was launched on 25 May 1933.

She was one of twelve ships of her class. The class followed the Argonauta-class submarine and was succeeded by the Perla-class submarine.

The boat displaced 680 long tons surfaced and 837 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.

Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns. Her machinery developed 1,350 bhp through two shafts.

She was in commission for 1,411 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 13 July 1943. The wreck survives.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 shafts; diesel-electric
2 × diesel engines
2 × electric motors
Power: 1350 bhp (diesels)
800 hp (electric motors)
Armament: 1 × single 100 mm deck gun
2–4 × single 13.2 mm machine guns
6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from Italian submarine Nereide (1933) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.