The Brin-class submarines were five Italian submarines that served in the Regia Marina

Regia Marina

The Regia Marina dates from the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 after Italian unification...

 during World War II. All ships were built by Tosi. Two boats were replacements for Archimede-class submarines

Archimede class submarine

The Archimede class were a group of submarines built for the Italian Navy in the early 1930s. The boats fought in the Spanish Civil War and in World War II...

 secretly transferred to the Nationalists

Falange

The Spanish Phalanx of the Assemblies of the National Syndicalist Offensive , known simply as the Falange, is the name assigned to several political movements and parties dating from the 1930s, most particularly the original fascist movement in Spain. The word means phalanx formation in Spanish....

 during the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

 in 1937. The class were partially double hull

Double hull

A double hull is a ship hull design and construction method invented by Leonardo da Vinci where the bottom and sides of the ship have two complete layers of watertight hull surface: one outer layer forming the normal hull of the ship, and a second inner hull which is some distance inboard,...

ed. The deck gun was initially mounted in the conning tower (to enable surface action during Indian ocean Monsoon). The gun was re-sited on the forward deck later in the war in surviving boats and the large conning tower was re-built to a smaller design.

Ships

Ship	Namesake	Launched	Fate
Brin	Benedetto Brin Benedetto Brin Benedetto Brin was an Italian naval administrator and politician.-Biography:Born in Turin, he worked with distinction as a naval engineer until the age of forty. In 1873, Admiral Simone Arturo Saint-Bon, Italy's Naval Minister, appointed him undersecretary of state...	3 April 1938	Surrendered to the Allies in 1943, discarded Feb 1948
Galvani	Luigi Galvani Luigi Galvani Luigi Aloisio Galvani was an Italian physician and physicist who lived and died in Bologna. In 1791, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs legs twitched when struck by a spark...	22 May 1938	Sunk by British sloop HMS Falmouth HMS Falmouth Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Falmouth, after the town of Falmouth:* HMS Falmouth was a 30-gun ship, formerly the Dutch Rotterdam...  near Persian Gulf 26 June 1940
Guglielmotti		5 March 1939	Sank the Greek Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....  cargo Atlas in the Red Sea on 6 September 1940. Torpedoed by HMS Unbeaten 17 March 1942
Archimede	Archimedes Archimedes Archimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among his advances in physics are the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and an...	5 March 1939	Escaped from East Africa in 1941 to Bordeaux, Sunk by US Navy Catalina flying boat off Brazil 16 March 1943
Torricelli	Evangelista Torricelli Evangelista Torricelli Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer.-Biography:Evangelista Torricelli was born in Faenza, part of the Papal States...	26 March 1939	Sunk in the Red Sea Red Sea The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez... , 23 June 1940 by British Destroyers HMS Kandahar, HMS Khartoum, HMS Kingston HMS Kingston Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Kingston.* HMS Kingston was a 60-gun fourth rate, launched in 1697, rebuilt in 1719 and 1740 and sold in 1762....  and sloop HMS Shoreham HMS Shoreham Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Shoreham after the town of Shoreham-by-Sea: was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1694. She was rebuilt as a 20-gun sixth rate in 1720, and was sold in 1744... , The submarine was commanded by Salvatore Pelosi Salvatore Pelosi Salvatore Pelosi was an Italian Naval officer who fought in World War II.Pelosi was educated at the Italian Naval academy in Livorno and before the war served on the battleship Caio Duilio, cruisers and destroyers as well as in the Italian marines in Tientsin-Red Sea:In 1940 Pelosi commanded the...