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F1 small submarines (1916 - 1918)


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F1

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
F1     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 5.1915 2.4.1916 10.1916 stricken 6.1930
F2     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 6.1915 4.6.1916 9.1916 stricken 2.1929
F3     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 5.1915 6.7.1916 10.1916 stricken 9.1919
F4     Orlando, Livorno 6.1915 19.11.1916 1.1917 stricken 9.1919
F5     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 5.1915 12.8.1916 11.1916 stricken 7.1929
F6     Orlando, Livorno 6.1915 4.3.1917 5.1917 stricken 8.1935
F7     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 7.1915 23.12.1916 3.1917 stricken 2.1929
F8     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 6.1915 13.11.1916 2.1917 stricken 9.1919
F9     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 6.1915 24.9.1916 12.1916 stricken 8.1928
F10     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 8.1915 19.10.1916 12.1916 stricken 6.1930
F11     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 7.1915 17.9.1916 12.1916 stricken 9.1919
F12     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 7.1915 30.11.1916 2.1917 stricken 7.1929
F13     Orlando, Livorno 9.1915 20.5.1917 8.1917 stricken 8.1935
F14     Odero, Sestri Ponente 10.1915 23.1.1917 3.1917 collision 6.8.1928
F15     Orlando, Livorno 10.1915 27.5.1917 8.1917 stricken 5.1929
F16     Odero, Sestri Ponente 10.1915 19.3.1917 4.1917 stricken 5.1928
F17     Orlando, Livorno 10.1915 3.6.1917 8.1917 stricken 11.1929
F18     Odero, Sestri Ponente 10.1915 15.5.1917 7.1917 stricken 10.1930
F19     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 7.1915 18.4.1917 1917 // --- completed for Portugal (Foca)
F20     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 7.1915 1917 1917 // --- completed for Portugal (Golfinho)
F21     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 7.1915 9.8.1917 1917 // --- completed for Portugal (Hidra)
F19     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 9.1915 10.3.1918 4.1918 stricken 6.1930
F20     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 9.1915 17.3.1918 6.1918 stricken 7.1935
F21     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 8.1915 19.5.1918 8.1918 stricken 10.1930
F22     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 8.1915 1917 1917 // --- completed for Spain (A1 Narciso Monturiol)
F23     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 8.1915 1917 1917 // --- completed for Spain (A2 Cosme García)
F24     Fiat - San Giorgio, La Spezia 8.1915 1917 1917 // --- completed for Spain (A3)


Technical data


Endurance, nm(kts)1600(8.5) / 80(4)
Displacement standard, t 
Displacement normal, t

262 / 319

Length, m

45.1 wl 45.6 oa

Breadth, m

4.22

Draught, m

3.10

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Fiat diesels / 2 Savigliano electric motors

Power, h. p.

670 / 500

Max speed, kts

12.5 / 8.2

Fuel, t

diesel oil 12

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/30 A1914, 2 - 450 TT (bow, 4)

Complement

26

Diving depth operational, m40


Standard scale images


<i>F1</i> 1918
F1 1918


Graphics


F1
F1


Project history

The most numerous series of Italian submarines. The project was developed by Fiat-San Giorgio. First 3 submarines were built in 1913-1914 for Brazil, later 3 for Portugal and 3 more for Spain. Boats had an easy manoeuvrability.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

F8 was sunk 14.2.1917 as result of accident during trials, but was raised and commissioned in September of the same year. F14 was lost 6.8.1928 because of collision with destroyer Giuseppe Missori.