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UIT15 seagoing submarines (1943 / )


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Bronzo 1943  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
UIT15 (ex-Sparide)     OTO, Muggiano, Italy 4.1942 21.2.1943 8/1943 // --- never commissioned, sunk 6.9.1944
UIT16 (ex-Murena)     OTO, Muggiano, Italy 4.1942 11.4.1943 8/1943 // --- never commissioned, sunk 4.9.1944
UIT19 (ex-Nautilo)     CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy 1.1942 20.3.1943 7/1943 // --- never commissioned, sunk 9.1.1944
UIT20 (ex-Grongo)     OTO, Muggiano, Italy 1942 6.5.1943 9/1943 // --- never commissioned, sunk 4.9.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

930 / 1093

Length, m

63.2

Breadth, m

6.98

Draught, m

4.87

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Fiat diesels / 2 CRDA electric motors

Power, h. p.

2400 / 800

Max speed, kts

16 / 8

Fuel, t

diesel oil 52

Endurance, nm(kts)5400(8) / 80(4)
Armament

UIT15, 19: 1 x 1 - 100/47 M1938, 2 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 6 - 533 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 12)

UIT16, 20: 2 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 6 - 533 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 12), 4 Maiale manned torpedoes

Electronic equipmentsonar, hydrophone
Complement

50

Diving depth operational, m120


Standard scale images


<i> UIT15</i>
UIT15


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<i>Bronzo</i> 1943  
Bronzo 1943  


Project history

Ex-Italian submarines of Flutto class (1st group), scuttled by own crews 9.9.1943 and salvaged by Germans. All were sunk by British aircraft. UIT15 and UIT16 were sunk by British bombers 6.9.1944 at Genoa, UIT19 was sunk by British bomers 9.1.1944 at Pola and UIT20 4.9.1944 at Genoa.