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Galileo Galilei  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Archimede			Tosi, Taranto	10/1931	10/12/1933	8/1934	to Nationalist Spain 4/1937 (General Sanjurjo)
Galileo Ferraris			Tosi, Taranto	10/1931	11/8/1934	1/1935	to Nationalist Spain 10/1937-1/1938 (General Sanjurjo II), sunk 25/10/1941
Galileo Galilei			Tosi, Taranto	10/1931	19/3/1934	10/1934	to Nationalist Spain 10/1937-1/1938 (General Mola II), captured by Britain 19/6/1940 (X2)
Evangelista Torricelli			Tosi, Taranto	10/1931	27/5/1934	12/1934	to Nationalist Spain 4/1937 (General Mola)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	880
Displacement normal, t	970 / 1239
Length, m	70.5
Breadth, m	6.87
Draught, m	4.12
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Tosi diesels / 2 Marelli electric motors
Power, h. p.	3000 / 1100
Max speed, kts	17 / 8
Fuel, t	diesel oil 100
Endurance, nm(kts)	10500(8) / 105(3)
Armament	2 x 1 - 100/43 OTO 1927, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 16)
Electronic equipment	hydrophone
Complement	55
Diving depth operational, m	90

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Ship project history

A little increased version of Settembrini class with larger fuel stowage and strengthened armament (second main gun was added, the number of spare torpedoes was increased). Partially double-hulled.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Galileo Ferraris was sunk 25/10/1941 in Atlantic E off Madeira by British aircraft and escort destroyer Lamerton. Galileo Galilei was captured 19/6/1940 in Red sea by British armed trawler Moonstone after submarine crew has poisoned with the gases arriving from ventilating system. She was later commissioned by Royal Navy as X2.