Italian ocean going diesel-electric submarine Alpino Bagnolini 1938-1943 and German U.I.T. 22 1943-1944

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Part of Liuzzi-class of which totally 4 four were built preceded by Brin-class. Laid down by Cantieri Navale Tosi, Taranto, Italy on 15 December 1938, launched on 28 October 1939, commissioned on 22 December 1939, seized at Bordeaux, France by German forces after the Italian armistice in September 1943, converted into a cargo submarine for supplying Japanese bases in the Far East, sunk by Catalina’s of the South African Force around 650 nautical miles south-southeast off Cape Town, South Africa on 11 March 1944 and stricken on 27 February 1947