Type | Midget | |
Class | CB (42) | |
Laid down | | Caproni-Taliedo, Milan |
Launched | |
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Commissioned | | |
End service | | |
Stricken | | |
Loss date | 31 Mar 1945 | |
Loss position | 44° 52'N, 13° 49'E | |
History | Captured by the German when still under construction. Transferred to the Italian Socialist Republic on completion in late 1943. Sunk at Pola during an Allied air raid on 31st March 1945. |
Fate | |
Commands
Commander | Date from | Date to | Command notes |
G.M. Alberto Coletti | Feb 1945 | 31 Mar 1945 | |
Ships hit
No ships hit by this submarine.
Patrols and events
| Commander | Date | Time | Port | Arr. date | Arr. time | Arr. port | Miles | Description |
| | 8 Sep 1943 | | Trieste | 8 Sep 1943 | | Trieste | | Seized at Trieste by the Germans. |
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1 | | 29 Jan 1945 | 1800? | Pola | 2 Feb 1945 | ? | Pola | | May have been one of two midgets to have operated against enemy traffic between Ancona and Zara. |
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2 | | 25 Feb 1945 | 1900 | Pola | 1 Mar 1945 | 1340 | Pola | | Sailed to operate against an enemy landing at Pag. No result was obtained. |
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3 | Coletti, Alberto | 31 Mar 1945 | 1800 | Pola | 31 Mar 1945 | | Sunk | | Sailed for special mission operation MOEWE (under German orders) to land two saboteurs from the EULENSPIEGEL detachment at Castel di Mezzo (about 2,000 meters south of Cattolica). Also believed to have been CB 19. Sunk near Pesaro some time after. Coletti was proposed for the Iron Cross on 17th April 1945. |
4 entries. 4 total patrol entries (3 marked as war patrols) and 0 events.