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UIT21 oceangoing submarine (1936/1943)

UIT21 1943

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
UIT21 (ex-Giuseppe Finzi)     OTO, Muggiano, Italy 8.1932 29.6.1935 1/1936 // 10.1943 scuttled 25.8.1944

 

Displacement standard, t

1310

Displacement normal, t

1525 / 2028

Length, m

84.3

Breadth, m

7.71

Draught, m

5.21

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Fiat diesels / 2 San Giorgio electric motors

Power, h. p.

4400 / 1800

Max speed, kts

17.1 / 7.9

Fuel, t

diesel oil 249

Endurance, nm(kts) 11400(8) / 80(4)

Armament

2 x 1 - 120/45 M1931, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 16),

Electronic equipment sonar, hydrophone

Complement

77

Diving depth operational, m 100

Project history:  Former Italian submarine Giuseppe Finzi, captured 9.9.1943 at Bordeaux after capitulation of Italy, 14.10.1943 she entered German service as UIT21. There is an unchecked information about converting of Giuseppe Finzi to transport submarine in Italian navy.

Modernizations: 1943: artillery consisted of 1 x 2 - 20/65 C/38; + FuMO 30 radar, FuMB 3 Bali, FMB 6 Palau ECM suites

Naval service: UIT21 was scuttled at Bordeaux 25.8.1944.

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