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UIT7 seagoing submarines

UIT7

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
UIT7 (ex-Bario)   CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy 3.1943 23.1.1944 --- scuttled incomplete 1.5.1945
UIT8 (ex-Litio)   CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy 3.1943 19.2.1944 --- scuttled incomplete 1.5.1945
UIT9 (ex-Sodio)   CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy 5.1943 16.3.1944 --- scuttled incomplete 1.5.1945
UIT10 (ex-Potassio)   CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy 8.1943 22.11.1943 --- scuttled incomplete 1.5.1945
UIT11 (ex-Rame)   CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy 6.1943 4.11.1943 --- scuttled incomplete 1.5.1945
UIT12 (ex-Ferro)   CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy 6.1943 22.11.1943 --- scuttled incomplete 1.5.1945
UIT13 (ex-Piombo)   CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy 8.1943 4.11.1943 --- scuttled incomplete 1.5.1945
UIT14 (ex-Zinco)   CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy 8.1943 4.11.1943 --- scuttled incomplete 1.5.1945

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

913 / 1113

Length, m

64.2

Breadth, m

6.98

Draught, m

4.93

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

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

Electronic equipment sonar, hydrophone

Complement

50

Diving depth operational, m 120

Project history: Ex-Italian submarines of Flutto class (2nd group) captured on the stocks. All were scuttled to avoid capture. UIT7 was salvaged in 1945 and commissioned by Italian navy as Bario in 1946.

 

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