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UIT22 oceangoing submarines (1939 - 1940 / 1943)


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Capitano Tarantini 1940

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
UIT22 (ex-Alpino Bagnolini)     Tosi, Taranto, Italy 12.1938 28.10.1939 12/1939 // 10.1943 sunk 11.3.1944
UIT23 (ex-Reginaldo Giuliani)     Tosi, Taranto, Italy 3.1938 13.3.1939 2.1940 // 10.1943 sunk 14.2.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1015

Displacement normal, t

1148 / 1460

Length, m

76.1

Breadth, m

6.98

Draught, m

4.55

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Tosi diesels / 2 Ansaldo electric motors

Power, h. p.

3500 / 1400

Max speed, kts

17.7 / 8.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 135

Endurance, nm(kts)13000(8) / 108(4)
Armament

1 x 1 - 100/47 M1938, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 12)

Electronic equipmentsonar, hydrophone
Complement

58

Diving depth operational, m90


Standard scale images


<i>UIT22</i> 1943
UIT22 1943


Graphics


<i>Capitano Tarantini </i>1940
Capitano Tarantini 1940


Project history

UIT22 was former Italian submarine Alpino Bagnolini, 9.9.1943 captured at Bordeaux after capitulation of Italy and 14.10.1943 entered German service. UIT23 was former Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani, 10.9.1943 captured by Japanese at Singapore and 22.10.1943 transferred to Kriegsmarine.

Modernizations

1943, both: artillery consisted of 1 x 2 - 20/65 C/38; + FuMO 30 radar, FuMB 3 Bali, FuMB 6 Palau ECM suites

Naval service

UIT22 was sunk 11.3.1944 by Catalina of 262nd AF sqn S off Capetown. UIT23 was torpedoed 15.2.1944 by British submarine Tally Ho in Malacca Strait.