Italian submarine Console Generale Liuzzi

The launch of Console Generale Liuzzi
The launch of Console Generale Liuzzi in 1939
History
Italy
NameConsole Generale Liuzzi
BuilderTosi, Taranto
Laid down1 October 1938
Launched17 September 1939
FateSunk, 27 June 1940
General characteristics
Class and typeLiuzzi-class submarine
Displacement
  • 1,166 tons surfaced
  • 1,484 dived[1]
Length252.5 ft (77.0 m)[2]
Beam23 ft (7.0 m)[2]
Draught13.7 ft (4.2 m)[2]
Propulsion
  • 2 × Tosi diesels
  • 2 × Ansaldo electric motors[1]
Speed18 kn (33 km/h) (surfaced)
Complement58[2]
Armament

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.

  1. ^ a b c "Liuzzi Class submarines at Photo Gallery of World War II". Retrieved 2008-12-05.
  2. ^ a b c d "World War II Archives Foundation". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2008-12-05.