Italian Adua class submarine

RSMG Adua Adua
Class overview
Operators:	Flag of Italy (1861-1946) Regia Marina
In commission:	1937–1948
Completed:	17
Lost:	16
General characteristics
Type:	Submarine
Displacement:	698 long tons (709 t) surfaced 866 long tons (880 t) submerged
Length:	60.28 m (197 ft 9 in)
Beam:	6.45 m (21 ft 2 in)
Draught:	4.64 m (15 ft 3 in)
Propulsion:	2 diesel engines, 2 electric motors
Speed:	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) surfaced 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph) submerged
Range:	3,180 nmi (5,890 km) at 10.5 kn (19.4 km/h) surfaced
Test depth:	80 m (260 ft)
Complement:	46
Armament:	• 1 × 100 mm (4 in)/47 calibre deck gun • 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (4 forward, 2 aft) • 12 × torpedoes

The Italian Adua-class submarine was the fourth subclass of the 600 Series of coastal submarines of the Regia Marina that served during World War II.

There were 17 submarines in this class, almost all named after places in Ethiopia which had been an Italian colony since 1936, but only one, Alagi survived through World War II:

1. Adua – sunk on 30 September 1941, by destroyers HMS Gurkha and HMS Legion, Western Mediterranean sea
2. Alagi - sold for scrap on 1 February 1948
3. Aradam – sunk on 4 September 1944 in Genoa by Allied bombers
4. Ascianghi – scuttled near Augusta, Sicily on 23 July 1943, after attack of destroyers HMS Laforey and HMS Eclipse
5. Axum – scuttled near Morea on 28 December 1943, during a mission for the Allies
6. Beilul – sunk by Allied air attack, May 1944
7. Dagabur – sunk during Operation Pedestal by the British destroyer HMS Wolverine
8. Dessiè – sunk on 28 November 1942 by destroyers HMS Quiberon and HMS Quentin, near Bona, Algeria.
9. Durbo – scuttled on 18 October 1940 east of Gibraltar after attack by destroyers HMS Firedrake and HMS Wrestler
10. Gondar – scuttled on 30 September 1940, near Alexandria, after attack by destroyers HMAS Stuart and HMS Diamond
11. Lafolè – sunk on 20 October 1940, north of Melilla by destroyers HMS Gallant, HMS Hotspur and HMS Griffin
12. Macallé
13. Neghelli – sunk on 19 January 1941 by destroyer HMS Greyhound
14. Scirè – sunk on 10 August 1942 off Haifa by HMS Islay
15. Tembien – sunk on 2 August 1941, west of Malta, by HMS Hermione
16. Uarsciek – sunk on 14 December 1942, south of Malta, by HMS Petard and Vasilissa Olga
17. Uebi Sciebeli – sunk on 29 June 1940 by HMS Dainty and HMS Ilex

External links

• Italian Submarines Class "600"
• Database of the Regia Marina (Italian)