Part of the Marcello-class submarines, consisting of the Marcello, Dandolo, Veniero, Provana, Mocenigo, Nani, Barbarigo, Emo, Morosini, Comandante Cappellini and Comandante Faa'di Bruno. Reproduced Glauco-class. Speed 17.4 (surfaced)-8 (submerged) knots.Range surfaced 7.700 nautical miles/9.4 knots and submerged 120 nautical miles/3 knots. Dimensions 73.00 x 7.20 x 5.10 metes or 239.6 x 23.7 x 16.9 feet and displacement 1.059 (surfaced)-1.3121.313 (submerged) tons.Crew numbered 57 men including 7 officers. Diving depth 100 metres. Armament consisted of 12-53.3cm/21” torpedo tubes (6 fore and 6 aft), 2x1-10cm4” cal 47 guns, 2x1-13.2mm/0.52” guns. Pennant CL.
Built by OTO, La Spezia, Italy. Laid down on 245 April 1938, launched on 14 May 1939, commissioned on 23 September 1939, converted into a cargo submarine in 1943, captured on 10 September 1943 at Sabang, Dutch East Indies by Germany after the Italian armistice and became the UIT-24, after Germany surrendered, seized on 10 May 1945 by Japan, became the I-505 or I-505, captured by the Allied forces at Kobe, Japan in 1945, scuttled by the US Navy in the Kii Suido on 16 April 1946 and stricken on 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
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