Marconi Class Submarines Class Overview

Dimensions, machinery and performance
Length:
250' 9"

Engines:

2 Diesels by C.R.D.A
Beam:
22' 3"
Motors:
2 Marelli
Draft:
15' 4"
Shafts:
2
Pressure Hull
Horsepower
Length:
N/A
Engines:
3,600
Diameter:
N/A
Motors:
1,500
Displacement
Speed
Surfaced:
1,195
Surfaced:
17.8 knots
Submerged:
1,490
Submerged:
8.2 knots
Diving Depth:
300'
Range
Surfaced:
10,500 NM @ 8 knots / 2,900 NM @ 17 knots
Crew:
57
Submerged:
110 NM @ 3 knots / 8 NM @ 15 knots


Armament as built
Guns
Number
Type
Arrangement
1
3.9"/47 (100mm)
Forward of conning tower
4
13.2mm machine guns
Torpedo Tubes
Number
Size
Location
8
21" (533mm)
4 bow / 4 stern


Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Alessandro Malaspina
Odero-Terni-Orlando (OTO)
Muggiano, Italy

Feb. 18, 1939
Sept. 10, 1941
Fate
Sailed from Bordeaux, France Sept. 7, 1941, missing since then.
Thought to have been sunk by an RAAF Sunderland of 10 Squadron
on Sept. 10, 1941, but the wreck has not been found.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Guglielmo Marconi
Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adratico (CRDA)
Monfalcone, Italy

July 30, 1939
Feb. 8, 1940
Fate
Sailed from Bordeaux, France on Oct. 5, 1941, missing since then.
Last contact made on Oct. 28 at position 42.55N - 21.55W.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Leonardo da Vinci
Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adratico (CRDA)
Monfalcone, Italy

Sept. 16, 1940
Mar. 23, 1943
Fate
Sunk May 23, 1943 by HMS Active H-14 and HMS Ness K-219 (depth charges).

Location: North Atlantic, 354 miles west of Vigo, Spain.
(42.16N - 15.40W)

No survivors.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Michele Bianchi
Odero-Terni-Orlando (OTO)
Muggiano, Italy

Dec. 3, 1939
Apr. 15, 1940
Fate
Sunk July 5, 1941 by HMS Tigris N-63 (torpedo).

Location: Bay of Biscay, 158 miles southwest of La Rochelle, France.
(45.03N - 4.01W)

No survivors.
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Odero-Terni-Orlando (OTO)
Muggiano, Italy

Apr. 21, 1940
July 10, 1940
Fate
Sunk Sept. 8, 1941 by HMS Croome L-62 (depth charges, gunfire, ramming).

Location: North Atlantic, 282 miles ENE of Sãn Miguel Island, Azores.
(40.15N - 20.55W)

28 crewmen killed, 32 survivors picked up by HMS Croome L-62.
(Roll of Remembrance)
Name
Builder
Launched
Completed
Luigi Torelli
Odero-Terni-Orlando (OTO)
Muggiano, Italy

Jan. 6, 1940
May 15, 1940
Fate
Scuttled April 1946 off Goto Island, Japan by U. S. Navy.
(Captured by Germany and commissioned as UIT-25 on Sept. 10, 1943,
turned over to the Japanese on May 10, 1945 and commissioned as I-504)


Page published Sept. 9, 2009