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Barbarigo 1942

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate	Modification
Barbarigo			CRDA, Monfalcone	2.1937	13.6.1938	9.1938	sunk probably 17-19.6.1943	Marcello class
Dandolo			CRDA, Monfalcone	6.1937	20.11.1937	3.1938	discarded 3.1947	Marcello class
Emo			CRDA, Monfalcone	2.1937	26.6.1938	10.1938	scuttled 10.11.1942	Marcello class
Marcello			CRDA, Monfalcone	1.1937	20.11.1937	3.1938	sunk perhaps 22.2.1941	Marcello class
Mocenigo			CRDA, Monfalcone	1.1937	20.11.1937	8.1938	sunk 13.5.1943	Marcello class
Morosini			CRDA, Monfalcone	3.1937	28.7.1938	11.1938	sunk probably 11.8.1942	Marcello class
Nani			CRDA, Monfalcone	1.1937	16.1.1938	9.1938	sunk probably 7.1.1941	Marcello class
Provana			CRDA, Monfalcone	2.1937	16.3.1938	6.1938	sunk 17.6.1940	Marcello class
Veniero			CRDA, Monfalcone	1.1937	12.2.1938	6.1938	sunk probably 7.6.1942	Marcello class
Comandante Cappellini			OTO, Muggiano	4.1938	14.5.1939	9.1939	captured by Japanese 10.9.1943 (German UIT24)	Comandante Cappellini class
Comandante Faà di Bruno			OTO, Muggiano	4.1938	18.6.1939	10.1939	sunk probably 8.11.1940	Comandante Cappellini class

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	955 - 962
Displacement normal, t	1043 / 1290
Length, m	73.0
Breadth, m	7.19
Draught, m	5.10
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 CRDA diesels / 2 CRDA electric motors Mocenigo, Veniero, Comandante Cappellini, Comandante Faà di Bruno: 2 Fiat diesels / 2 CRDA electric motors
Power, h. p.	3600 / 1100
Max speed, kts	17.4 / 8
Fuel, t	diesel oil 108
Endurance, nm(kts)	8000(8) / 120(3)
Armament	2 x 1 - 100/47 OTO 1938, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 16)
Electronic equipment	hydrophone
Complement	57
Diving depth operational, m	100

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Project history

Development of Glauco. Single-hulled with external bulges. Best Italian large submarines of WWII-era: fast, with good underwater manoeuvrability. A weak place, the general for all contemporary Italian submarines, was an insufficient stability at surfacing/diving.

In 1943 Barbarigo and Comandante Cappellini were converted to transport submarines for routes to Japan.

Modernizations

1943, Barbarigo, Comandante Cappellini: were converted to transports (50 t of ammunition, 80 t of petrol).

Naval service

Provana was sunk 17.6.1940 near Oran by ramming of French sloop La Curieuse. Comandante Faà di Bruno was lost in November, 1940 in Atlantic, probably sunk by British destroyer Havelock. Nani was sunk in North Atlantic 7.1.1941 by British corvette Anemone. Marcello was sunk in North Atlantic by escort ships 22.2.1942. Veniero was sunk in Mediterranean 7.6.1942, possibly, by aircraft. Morosini was lost in August-September, 1942 in bay of Biscay. Emo was sunk N of Alger by British armed trawler Lord Nuffield 10.11.1942. Mocenigo was sunk 15.5.1943 at Cagliari by American bombers. Barbarigo was sunk 16 or 19.6.1943 in bay of Biscay by Allied aircraft. Comandante Cappellini was captured 10.9.1943 by Japan at Sabang, transferred to Germany, renamed UIT24, 10.5.1945 she was re-captured by Japan, commissioned as I503, surrendered at Kobe 2.9.1945 and broken up in 1946.

Barbarigo 1942