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Tupi 1937

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Tupi (ex-Neghelli)	T1		Tosi, Taranto, Italy	1936	28.11.1936	10/1937	stricken 8.1959
Timbira (ex-Gondor)	T2		Tosi, Taranto, Italy	11/1936	30.12.1936	10/1937	stricken 8.1959
Tamoio (ex-Ascianghi)	T3		Tosi, Taranto, Italy	6/1936	14.2.1937	10/1937	stricken 8.1959

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	615
Displacement normal, t	674 / 853
Length, m	60.2
Breadth, m	6.45
Draught, m	3.70 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Fiat diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	1400 / 800
Max speed, kts	14 / 7.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil 47
Endurance, nm(kts)	2150(8.5) / 72(4)
Armament	1 x 1 - 100/47 OTO 1931-38, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 6 - 533 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 12)
Electronic equipment	hydrophone
Complement	33
Diving depth operational, m	80

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Project history

Laid down for Italian Navy as Neghelli, Gondar and Ascianghi, sold to Brazil 10.3.1937 being outfitted. Medium submarines of so-called "600t" type (4th series). Single-hulled, with bulges. Boats were accepted by Brazilian crews at La Spezia 10.10.1937, arrived Rio de Janeiro 14.3.1938. Hull numbers were T1-3.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Tupi was damaged 14.12.1938 by battery explosion. Timbira 8.10.1943 was wrongly attacked by aircraft, received air bomb hit to CT, lost some person, including commander.

1937