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Brin 1940  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Archimede			Tosi, Taranto	12.1937	5.3.1939	4.1939	sunk 15.4.1943
Brin			Tosi, Taranto	2.1936	3.4.1938	6.1938	discarded 2.1948
Galvani			Tosi, Taranto	12.1936	22.5.1938	7.1938	sunk 24.6.1940
Guglielmotti			Tosi, Taranto	12.1936	11.9.1938	10.1938	sunk 17.3.1942
Torricelli			Tosi, Taranto	12.1937	26.3.1939	5.1939	scuttled 23.6.1940

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	913
Displacement normal, t	1000 / 1245
Length, m	72.5
Breadth, m	6.68
Draught, m	4.54
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Tosi diesels / 2 Ansaldo electric motors
Power, h. p.	3400 / 1300
Max speed, kts	17.3 / 8
Fuel, t	diesel oil 61 (norm.)
Endurance, nm(kts)	9000(7.8) / 90(4)
Armament	2 x 1 - 100/43 OTO 1927, 4 x 1 - 13.2/76, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 14)
Electronic equipment	hydrophone
Complement	58
Diving depth operational, m	110

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Project history

Repetition of Archimede class. Partially double-hulled. Differed from a prototype by hardly more powerful diesels and larger CT, similar to applied on Foca class, with 100mm/43 gun installed on it.

Building of two last boats of this class, Archimede and Toricelli, was conducted as fiduciary to hide the fact of transfer of two submarines with the same names to Franco.

In 1941-1942 on Brin, Archimede and, probably, Guiglemotti, the gun was moved from CT on deck fwd from it.

Modernizations

1941 - 1942, Arcimede, Brin, Guglielmotti: - 1 x 1 - 100/43; + 1 x 1 - 100/47 OTO 1938

Naval service

Toricelli after artillery battle against British sloop Shoreham and destroyers Khartoum, Kandahar and Kingston 23.6.1940 in Red sea received heavy damages and was scuttled by crew. Galvani was sunk 26.4.1940 in Persian gulf by British sloop Falmouth. Guglielmotti was sunk 17.3.1942 S of by British submarine Unbeaten. Archimede was sunk 15.4.1943 at coast of Brazil by American aircraft.