The launch of Console Generale Liuzzi in 1939 | |
History | |
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Italy | |
Name | Console Generale Liuzzi |
Builder | Tosi, Taranto |
Laid down | 1 October 1938 |
Launched | 17 September 1939 |
Fate | Sunk, 27 June 1940 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Liuzzi-class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 252.5 ft (77.0 m)[2] |
Beam | 23 ft (7.0 m)[2] |
Draught | 13.7 ft (4.2 m)[2] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 18 kn (33 km/h) (surfaced) |
Complement | 58[2] |
Armament |
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Console Generale Liuzzi was an Italian Liuzzi-class ocean-going submarine of the Regia Marina, launched in 1939 and sunk in 1940 by Royal Navy destroyers. It was named after Alberto Liuzzi (1898–1937), a console generale (brigadier general) of the Blackshirts.