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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 equipment	sonar, hydrophone
Complement	58
Diving depth operational, m	90

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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.