Brin 1942
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Archimede | Tosi, Taranto | 12.1937 | 5.3.1939 | 4.1939 | sunk 15.4.1943 | ||
| Brin | Tosi, Taranto | 2.1936 | 3.4.1938 | 6.1938 | discarded 2.1948 | ||
| Galvani | Tosi, Taranto | 12.1936 | 22.5.1938 | 7.1938 | sunk 24.6.1940 | ||
| Guglielmotti | Tosi, Taranto | 12.1936 | 11.9.1938 | 10.1938 | sunk 17.3.1942 | ||
| Torricelli | Tosi, Taranto | 12.1937 | 26.3.1939 | 5.1939 | scuttled 23.6.1940 |
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Displacement standard, t |
913 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1000 / 1245 |
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Length, m |
72.5 |
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Breadth, m |
6.68 |
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Draught, m |
4.54 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 Tosi diesels / 2 Ansaldo electric motors |
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Power, h. p. |
3400 / 1300 |
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Max speed, kts |
17.3 / 8 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil 61 (norm.) |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 9000(7.8) / 90(4) |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 100/43 OTO 1927, 4 x 1 - 13.2/76, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 14) |
| Electronic equipment | hydrophone |
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Complement |
58 |
| Diving depth operational, m | 110 |
Project history: Repetition of Archimede class. Partially double-hulled. Differed from a prototype by hardly more powerful diesels and larger CT, similar to applied on Foca class, with 100mm/43 gun installed on it.
Building of two last boats of this class, Archimede and Toricelli, was conducted as fiduciary to hide the fact of transfer of two submarines with the same names to Franco.
In 1941-1942 on Brin, Archimede and, probably, Guiglemotti, the gun was moved from CT on deck fwd from it.
Modernizations: 1941 - 1942, Arcimede, Brin, Guglielmotti: - 1 x 1 - 100/43; + 1 x 1 - 100/47 OTO 1938
Naval service: Toricelli after artillery battle against British sloop Shoreham and destroyers Khartoum, Kandahar and Kingston 23.6.1940 in Red sea received heavy damages and was scuttled by crew. Galvani was sunk 26.4.1940 in Persian gulf by British sloop Falmouth. Guglielmotti was sunk 17.3.1942 S of by British submarine Unbeaten. Archimede was sunk 15.4.1943 at coast of Brazil by American aircraft.
Brin 1940
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