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Carlo Fecia di Cossato
Career (Italy)
Name:
  • Carlo Fecia di Cossato
Namesake: Carlo Fecia di Cossato
Builder: Fincantieri, Monfalcone
Laid down: 15 November 1975
Launched: 16 November 1977
Commissioned: 5 November 1979
Decommissioned: 1 April 2005
Homeport: La Spezia
Identification:
Fate: Scrapped Aliaga Turkey 2024
General characteristics
Class & type: Sauro-class submarine
Displacement:
  • 1,456 tonnes (surfaced)
  • 1,641 tonnes (submerged)
Length: 63.85 m (209.5 ft)
Beam: 6.83 m (22.4 ft)
Draught: 5.3 m (17.4 ft)
Depth: 300 m (984.3 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 3-shaft diesel Grandi Motori Trieste GMT 210.16-NM (2,7 mW)
  • 1 electric engine Magneti Marelli (2.686 kW)
Speed:
  • 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) (surfaced)
  • 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) (submerged)
  • Range: 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
    Complement:
    • 7 officers
    • 44 enlisted
    Sensors and
    processing systems:
  • 1 x radar SMA SPS-704
  • 1 x sonar Elsag-USEA IPD70/S
  • Submarine Action Information System SMA/Datamat MM/SBN-716 SACTIS
  • periscopes Barr & Stroud CK31 Search and CH81 Attack Periscopes
  • communication system by ELMER
  • Electronic warfare
    & decoys:
  • ESM systems Elettronica Spa, Thetis ELT/124-s and MM-BLD/1
  • Armament:
  • 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes with reloads for:
  • 1.) Black Shark torpedo
  • 2.) Naval mines
  • Carlo Fecia di Cossato (S 519) was aSauro-class submarine of the Italian Navy.[1]

    Construction and career[]

    Carlo Fecia di Cossato was laid down at Fincantieri Monfalcone Shipyard on 15 November 1975 and launched on 16 November 1977. She was commissioned on 5 November 1979.

    She was decommissioned on 30 April 2002. From 1 April 2005, she began disarmament while moored at La Spezia and she is expected to undergo restoration where she will be transferred to Trieste serve as a museum ship in their old port. The sister submarine, Nazario Sauro was destined for a similar role and was transferred on 18 September 2009 to be exhibited at the Galata - Museum of the sea in Genoa as an integral part of the museum. Carlo Fecia di Cossato was sold for scrap 2023.

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