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Tuesday 30 November 2021

Italian midget submarine CB 21 1943-1945

Of the CB-class preceded by CA-class. Displacement 36 (surfaced)-45 (submerged) tons and as dimensions 15 x 3 x 2.10 metres. Crew numbered 4 men including 1 officer. Armament consisted of 2-45cm/17.7 torpedo tubes. Speed 7.5 (surfaced)-7 (submerged) knots. Range surfaced 1.400 nautical miles/5 knots respectively 450/7.5 and submerged 50/3 respectively 7/7.

Built by Caproni-Taliedo. Captured by the Germans after the Italian armistice of 3 September 1943, handed over to the Italian Social Republic, sunk near Pola (Pula, Croatia) in a collision on 29 April 1945 and stricken on Italian naval list 27 February 1947.

Sources

Erminio Bagnasco, Submarines of World War Two, Cassell & Co, London. 1977

Paolo M. Pollina. I Sommergibili Italiani. Ufficio Storico della Marina Militare. Rome, 1963

Several editions of Jane’s Fighting Ships

https://www.marina.difesa.it/

http://www.regiamarina.net/

http://warshipsresearch.blogspot.com/

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