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Galileo Galilei  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Archimede			Tosi, Taranto	10.1931	10.12.1933	8.1934	to Nationalist Spain 4.1937 (General Sanjurjo)
Galileo Ferraris			Tosi, Taranto	10.1931	11.8.1934	1.1935	to Nationalist Spain 10.1937-1/1938 (General Sanjurjo II), sunk 25.10.1941
Galileo Galilei			Tosi, Taranto	10.1931	19.3.1934	10.1934	to Nationalist Spain 10.1937-1/1938 (General Mola II), captured by Britain 19.6.1940 (X2)
Evangelista Torricelli			Tosi, Taranto	10.1931	27.5.1934	12.1934	to Nationalist Spain 4.1937 (General Mola)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	880
Displacement normal, t	970 / 1239
Length, m	70.5
Breadth, m	6.87
Draught, m	4.12
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Tosi diesels / 2 Marelli electric motors
Power, h. p.	3000 / 1100
Max speed, kts	17 / 8
Fuel, t	diesel oil 100
Endurance, nm(kts)	10500(8) / 105(3)
Armament	2 x 1 - 100/43 OTO 1927, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 16)
Electronic equipment	hydrophone
Complement	55
Diving depth operational, m	90

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Project history

A little increased version of Settembrini class with larger fuel stowage and strengthened armament (second main gun was added, the number of spare torpedoes was increased). Partially double-hulled.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Galileo Ferraris was sunk 25.10.1941 in Atlantic E off Madeira by British aircraft and escort destroyer Lamerton. Galileo Galilei was captured 19.6.1940 in Red sea by British armed trawler Moonstone after submarine crew has poisoned with the gases arriving from ventilating system. She was later commissioned by Royal Navy as X2.