Sauro class submarine
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The Nazario Sauro class are submarines operated by the Italian Navy
. All boats were built by Fincantieri
in Monfalcone
. There are three sub groups built in four batches:
Marina Militare
The Italian Navy is the navy of the Italian Republic. It is one of the four branches of military forces of Italy; formed in 1946, from what remained of the Regia Marina . As of 2008, the Italian Navy had 35,200 active personnel with 180 commissioned ships, 19 Floating Docks, and 123 aircraft...
. All boats were built by Fincantieri
Fincantieri
Fincantieri - Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A. is a shipbuilding company based in Trieste, Italy. It was formed in 1959 and is the largest shipbuilder in the Mediterranean, and one of the largest in Europe...
in Monfalcone
Monfalcone
Monfalcone is a town and comune of the province of Gorizia , located on the coast of the Gulf of Trieste. Monfalcone means "Mount of Falcon" in Italian....
. There are three sub groups built in four batches:
- Nazario Sauro class (I-II Sauro batch):
- S518 Nazario Sauro - completed 1980 - decommissioned 2002 (named after Nazario SauroNazario SauroNazario Sauro was an Austrian-born Italian irredentist and sailor.-Life:Born in Capodistria, in what was then the Austrian Littoral , he took to sailing from a very young age, and became the captain of a cargo ship when he was only 20...
); since september 2009, this unit has been a museum shipMuseum shipA museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public, for educational or memorial purposes...
in GenoaGenoaGenoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
(part of Galata - Museo del mare). - S519 Carlo Fecia di Cossato - completed 1980 - decommissioned 2005 (named after Italian World War II submarine commander Carlo Fecia di CossatoCarlo Fecia di CossatoCarlo Fecia di Cossato was a naval ace in the Regia Marina . He commanded submarines and ships during World War II. He was credited with the confirmed sinking of 16 enemy ships. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...
) - S520 Leonardo Da Vinci - completed 1982 - targeted for decommissioning, training activity only (named after Leonardo Da VinciLeonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
) - S521 Guglielmo Marconi - completed 1982 - decommissioned 2003 (named after Guglielmo MarconiGuglielmo MarconiGuglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand...
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- S518 Nazario Sauro - completed 1980 - decommissioned 2002 (named after Nazario Sauro
- Salvatore Pelosi class or III Sauro batch with improved combat systems:
- S522 Salvatore Pelosi - completed 1988 - in service - named after Italian World War II submarine commander and war hero Salvatore PelosiSalvatore PelosiSalvatore 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...
- S523 Giuliano Prini - completed 1989 - in service - named after Italian World War II submarine commander and war hero Giuliano Prini
- S522 Salvatore Pelosi - completed 1988 - in service - named after Italian World War II submarine commander and war hero Salvatore Pelosi
- Primo Longobardo class or IV Improved Sauro batch:
- S524 Primo Longobardo - completed 1993 - in service - named after Italian World War II submarine commander and war hero Primo Longobardo
- S525 Gianfranco Gazzana Priaroggia - completed 1993 - in service - named after Italian World War II submarine commander and war hero Gianfranco Gazzana-PriaroggiaGianfranco Gazzana-PriaroggiaGianfranco Gazzana Priaroggia was an officer in the Italian Royal Navy . Gazzana-Priaroggia commanded multiple Italian submarines during World War II...