Italian submarine Barbarigo

Career (Italy)
Name:	Barbarigo
Builder:	CRDA
Launched:	12 June 1938
Commissioned:	19 September 1938
Fate:	Presumed sunk, c. 16 June 1943
General characteristics
Type:	Submarine
Displacement:	1,060 long tons (1,080 t) surfaced 1,313 long tons (1,334 t) submerged
Length:	73 m (239 ft 6 in)
Beam:	7.19 m (23 ft 7 in)
Draught:	5.1 m (16 ft 9 in)
Propulsion:	Diesel-electric 2 × CRDA diesels 2 × CRDA electric motors
Speed:	17.4 knots (20.0 mph; 32.2 km/h) surfaced 8 knots (9.2 mph; 15 km/h) submerged
Complement:	58
Armament:	8 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (4 bow, 4 stern) 2 × 100 mm (3.9 in)/47 guns 4 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns

Barbarigo was a World War II Italian Marcello-class submarine built for the Italian Royal Navy (Italian: Regia Marina). The submarine was converted into a transport to carry materiel between Germany and Japan in 1943, but disappeared on her first mission in that capacity, sometime after 16 June 1943.

The Italian Government issued a 5 Lira red adhesive revenue stamp featuring the Barbarigo. Inscription on the vertical stamp is "Sommergibile BARBARIGO/ INA GIL". exact purpose of this stamp is uncertain but may have been a tax or a charge for mail carried on board the vessel.

References

• Barbarigo at regiamarina.net
• Erminio Bagnasco, Submarines of World War Two, Cassell & Co, London. 1977 ISBN 1-85409-532-3