Italian submarine Alagi

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Alagi
Career (Italy)
Laid down:	19 March 1936
Launched:	15 November 1936
Commissioned:	6 March 1937
Decommissioned:
Fate:
Stricken:	1947
General characteristics
Displacement:	698 tons surfaced 866 tons submerged
Length:	60.18 m
Beam:	6.45 m
Draft:	4.6 m
Speed:	14 knots surfaced 7.5 submerged
Complement:	46
Armament:	4 torpedo tubes forward 2 torpedo tubes aft 12 533 mm torpedoes on board 100 mm/47 cal deck gun

Italian submarine Alagi was an Italian 600-Serie Adua-class submarine, serving in the Regia Marina during World War II. It was named after the Amba Alagi mountain in Ethiopia.

It was built in CRDA shipyard, in Monfalcone. It was laid down on 19 March 1936, launched 15 November of the same year, and commissioned on 6 March 1937.

Alagi operated to intercept and block an August 1942 Allied convoy to Malta (Operation Pedestal). It succeeded in damaging the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Kenya and sinking a merchant ship, on 12 August.

Alagi, a member of the 7th Group - 71st Squadron of the submarine fleet, was still operating on 8 September 1943, when the Allies and Italy signed the armistice. Alagi arrived in Malta with the Regia Marina fleet. It was sold for scrap on 1 February 1948.

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