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YUGOSLAVIAN NAVY (YUGOSLAVIA)

SUBMARINES

SMELI submarines (1929)

Osvetnik 1941

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Смели [Smeli]   569 A C de la Loire, Nantes, France 1928 1.12.1928 1929 captured by Italy 17.4.1941 (N2 Antonio Bajamonti)
Осветник [Osvetnik]   570 A C de la Loire, Nantes, France 1928 14.2.1929 1929 captured by Italy 17.4.1941 (N1 Francesco Rismondo)

 

Displacement standard, t

?

Displacement normal, t

655 / 822

Length, m

66.5 pp 69.1 oa

Breadth, m

5.40

Draught, m

3.80

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 MAN diesels / 2 Nancy electric motors

Power, h. p.

1480 / 1100

Max speed, kts

14.5 / 9.2

Fuel, t

diesel oil 25

Endurance, nm(kts) 5000(9) / 100(4.5)

Armament

1 x 1 - 100/40 (fr), 6 - 550 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 12)

Complement

45

Diving depth operational, m 80

Project history: Designed and built in France on a basis of French submarine Sirene to with close characteristics. Most significant differences consisted in absence of trained TT mount, replacement of 75mm gun by 100mm, more powerful machinery. Double-hulled. Both submarines arrived to Yugoslavia 9.12.1929.

Modernizations: 1930s, both: + 1 x 1 - 40/64 Škoda

Naval service: 17.4.1941 Smeli and Osvetnik were captured at Kotor and commissioned by Regia Marina as Francesco Rismondo and Antonio Baiamonti. Former 14.9.1943 was captured by German troops at Bonifaccio (Corsica) and 17.9.1943 scuttled by them, latter was scuttled by crew 9.9.1943 at La Spezia.

Osvetnik 1930

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

 

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