UIT-22
(ex Italian submarine Alpino Bagnolini)
Type | Generale Liuzzi | Italian design |
Laid down | 1938 | Cantieri Tosi, Italy |
Commissioned * | 10 Sept, 1943 | Oblt. Carl Wunderlich |
Commanders | 10.43 - 03.44 | Oblt. Carl Wunderlich |
Career | 1 patrol | 10.43 - 03.44 12th Flotilla (Bordeaux) front boat |
Successes | None | |
Fate |
Launched as the Italian submarine Alpino Bagnolini on 28 Oct 1939. Taken over by the Germans,
following the Italian capitulation, at her Bordeaux, France base on 9 Sept, 1943.
Sunk 11 March, 1944 south of the Cape of Good Hope, in position 41.28S, 17.40E, by a South African aircraft. 43 dead (all hands lost). |
* Commissioned into German service.
These boats were roughly 1166tons on the surface, in many ways they were similar in measurements to the German type IXC, they had 8 torpedo tubes and carried 14 torpedoes and had a complement of roughly 57 in Italian service.
UIT-22 (ex Alpino Bagnolini) and UIT-23 (ex Reginaldo Giuliani) were identical boats.