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Console Generale Liuzzi 17.9.1939  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Alpino Bagnolini			Tosi, Taranto	12.1938	28.10.1939	12.1939	captured by Germany 10.9.1943 (UIT22)
Reginaldo Giuliani			Tosi, Taranto	3.1939	3.12.1939	2.1940	captured by Japan 10.9.1943 (German UIT23)
Console Generale Liuzzi			Tosi, Taranto	11.1938	17.9.1939	11.1939	scuttled 27.6.1940
Capitano Tarantini			Tosi, Taranto	4.1939	7.1.1940	3.1940	sunk 15.12.1940

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1031
Displacement normal, t	1148 / 1460
Length, m	76.1
Breadth, m	6.98
Draught, m	4.55
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Tosi diesels / 2 Ansaldo electric motors
Power, h. p.	2500 / 1500
Max speed, kts	18 / 8
Fuel, t	diesel oil 135
Endurance, nm(kts)	11300(8) / 108(3)
Armament	2 x 1 - 100/47 OTO 1938, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 8 - 533 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 12)
Electronic equipment	hydrophone
Complement	58
Diving depth operational, m	90

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Project history

Increased version of Brin class. Partially double-hulled. In comparison with predecessors, they had better stability and at the expense of new bow form higher speed. Gun from CT was moved on a deck fwd from CT.

Bagnolini and Guilliani in 1943 were converted to transports for routes to Japan.

Modernizations

1943, Alpino Bagnolini, Reginaldo Giuliani: were converted to transports (ammunition and petrol).

Naval service

Capitano Tarantini was sunk in bay of Biscay 15.12.1940 by British submarine Thunderbolt. Console Generate Liuzzi was sunk 27.6.1940 S of Crete by British destroyers Dainty, Ilex and Defender. Reginaldo Guilliani was captured by Japanese at Singapore 10.9.1943, transferred to Germany and renamed UIT23. She was sunk 14.2.1944 in strait of Malacca by British submarine Tally Ho. Alpino Bagnolini 10.9.1943 was captured by German troops at Bordeaux, renamed UIT22 and sunk 11.3.1944 S of the Cape Good Hope by SAAF Catalina flying boat.