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Luciano Manara 1943    

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Fratelli Bandiera			CNT, Monfalcone	2.1928	7.8.1929	9.1930	discarded 2.1948
Luciano Manara			CNT, Monfalcone	2.1928	5.10.1929	6.1930	discarded 2.1948
Ciro Menotti			OTO, Muggiano	5.1928	29.12.1929	8.1930	discarded 2.1948
Santorre Santarosa			OTO, Muggiano	5.1928	22.10.1929	7.1930	scuttled 20.1.1943

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	858 - 866
Displacement normal, t	925 / 1080
Length, m	69.8
Breadth, m	7.30
Draught, m	5.26
No of shafts	2
Machinery	Fratelli Bandiera, Luciano Manara: 2 Tosi diesels / 2 Savigliano electric motors Ciro Menotti, Santorre Santarosa: 2 Fiat diesels / 2 Savigliano electric motors
Power, h. p.	3000 / 1300
Max speed, kts	17.5 / 9
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	4750(8.5) / 60(4)
Armament	1 x 1 - 102/35 Schneider-Armstrong 1914-15, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 12)
Electronic equipment	hydrophone
Complement	53
Diving depth operational, m	90

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Project history

Increased Pisani with more powerful engines, two additional TTs and hardly higher endurance. Single-hulled. They had an insufficient stability, for its correction soon after completion submarines received external bulges which have lowered speed from 17.5/9 to 15/8kts. Then in a fore end on an extent about 5m aft from a stem the deck was lengthened for seaworthiness improvement.

In 1942 Luciano Manara (and, probably, others) has passed refit, in which course received smaller CT.

Modernizations

1930 - 1931, all: bulges were fitted, max speed was 15 / 8 kts.

1942, Ciro Menotti: - 1 x 1 - 102/35; + 1 x 1 - 100/47 OTO 1938

Naval service

Santore Santarosa grounded near Tripoli 20.1.1943, torpedoed by British MTB260 and later scuttled.