- Design and description
- Ships
- Service
- Notes
- References
{{Infobox ship image| Ship image= Субмарина Брин.jpg | Ship caption=
}}{{Infobox ship class overview | Name=Brin-class submarines | Builders=Tosi | Kingdom of Italy}} | Archimede|submarine|4}} | Liuzzi|submarine|4}} | Cost= | Built range=1936–39 | In service range= | In commission range=1938–48 | Total ships completed=5 | Total ships lost=4 | Total ships scrapped=1
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship type=Submarine | 1000|t|LT|0}} surfaced- {{convert|1245|t|LT|0}} submerged
| 72.47|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | 6.68|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | 4.54|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | 3000|bhp|lk=in|abbr=on}} (diesels)- {{convert|1300|hp|abbr=on}} (electric motors)
| Ship propulsion=*Diesel-electric- 2 × diesel engines
- 2 × electric motors
| 17.3|kn|lk=in}} surfaced- {{convert|8|kn}} submerged
| 9000|nmi|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|7.8|kn}} surfaced- {{convert|90|nmi|abbr=on}} at {{convert|4|kn}} submerged
| Ship endurance= | 80|m|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship complement=58 | 533|mm|in|0|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes (4 bow, 4 stern)- 1 × {{convert|100|mm|in|abbr=on|0}} / 47 caliber deck gun
- 2 × twin {{convert|13.2|mm|in|abbr=on}} anti-aircraft guns
| Ship notes=
}} | The Brin-class submarine was a group of five long-range submarines built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) during the 1930s. Design and descriptionThe Brin-class submarines were improved versions of the preceding {{sclass-|Archimede|submarine|4}}. Two boats were replacements for submarines of that class that were secretly transferred to the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. They displaced {{convert|1000|t|LT|sp=us}} surfaced and {{convert|1254|t|LT|sp=us}} submerged. The submarines were {{convert|72.47|m|ftin|sp=us}} long, had a beam of {{convert|6.68|m|ftin|sp=us}} and a draft of {{convert|4.54|m|ftin|sp=us}}. The class was partially double hulled.[1] For surface running, the boats were powered by two {{convert|1500|bhp|lk=in|0|adj=on}} diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. When submerged each propeller was driven by a {{convert|550|hp|0|adj=on}} electric motor. They could reach {{convert|17.3|kn|lk=in}} on the surface and {{convert|7.8|kn}} underwater. On the surface, the Brin class had a range of {{convert|9000|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|8|kn}}, submerged, they had a range of {{convert|90|nmi|abbr=on}} at {{convert|4|kn}}.[2] The boats were armed with eight internal {{convert|53.3|cm|in|1|abbr=on|sp=us}} torpedo tubes, four each in the bow and stern. They carried a total of 14 torpedoes. They were also armed with one {{convert|100|mm|in|abbr=on|0}} deck gun for combat on the surface. The gun was initially mounted in the rear of the conning tower, but this was re-sited on the forward deck later in the war in the surviving boats and the large conning tower was re-built to a smaller design. The light anti-aircraft armament consisted of one or two pairs of {{convert|13.2|mm|in|abbr=on}} machine guns.[1] Ships| Ship | Namesake | Launched | Fate |
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| Italian submarine|Brin | 2} | Benedetto Brin | 3 April 1938 | Surrendered to the Allies in 1943, discarded Feb 1948 | | Italian submarine|Galvani|1938|2}} | Luigi Galvani | 22 May 1938 | Falmouth|L34|6}} near Persian Gulf 26 June 1940 | | Italian submarine|Guglielmotti|1938|2}} | Alberto Guglielmotti | 11 September 1938 | Atlas in the Red Sea on 6 September 1940. Torpedoed by {{HMS>Unbeaten|N93|6}} 17 March 1942 | | Italian submarine|Archimede|1939|2}} | Archimedes | 5 March 1939 | Escaped from East Africa in 1941 to Bordeaux, Sunk by US Navy Catalina flying boats off Brazil 15 April 1943 | | Italian submarine|Torricelli|1939|2}} | Evangelista Torricelli | 26 March 1939 | Kandahar|F28|6}}, {{HMS|Khartoum|F45|6}}, {{HMS|Kingston|F64|6}} and sloop {{HMS|Shoreham|L32|6}}, The submarine was commanded by Salvatore Pelosi |
Service{{Empty section|date=August 2015}} Notes1. ^1 Chesneau, p. 309
2. ^Bagnasco, p. 154
References- {{cite book|last=Bagnasco |first=Erminio |title=Submarines of World War Two |year=1977 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=0-87021-962-6}}
- {{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=Greenwich, UK|year=1980|isbn=0-85177-146-7}}
- {{cite book|last=Rohwer|first=Jürgen|title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=2005|edition=Third Revised|isbn=1-59114-119-2|authorlink=Jürgen Rohwer}}
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