Daily submarine picture

[greenman407]

OH MY GOD!!! Internet is back up again! 2 days up, 4 days down. VERIZON FIOS!!! LOL, LOL , LOL!
Virginia class , comin right at ya.

[greenman407]

Italian sub from WW2. Dont have a ID. It has been said that the Italians had the largest sub force in the world during WW2. But they didnt know what to do with them.

[reddevil]

They were very short of fuel and supplies. But what they were more shorter was qualified high command chiefs to prepare good operational planns and to give commanders appropiate operational orders. They were always tied up with addendas to their orders such us "avoid combat if enemy has superior forces or if there's any risk to your ship", and so on. Wait a minute. Risk of loosing my ship? Sir, I'm going to engage with a fellow whose task is giving me hell. What am I supposed to do?
A very sad situation a lot of RN officers realized about after italian surrender.

[vital.spark]

Hello Mark,

Looks like the Calvi Class of which there were 3 boats, Pietro Calvi, Enrico Tazzoli and Giuseppe Finzi. All 3 took part in the Spanish Civil War. During WWII all 3 were posted to Bordeaux. Tazzolli had the best record sinking 19 merchant ships totlling 96,533 grt in eight patrols.

Regards,

Myron

[greenman407]

Wow, that was really good. Im surprised. Thanks for the additional info. That helps alot.

[vital.spark]

I have a book, Submarines of World War Two by Erminio Bagnasco. It lists all the subs including pictures and sketches of every type for all the countries During the war. It lists who and when built and all the specs of every type! I found it by accident in New Zealand and is the most informative book I own on the Subject!!

The book has pictures and sketches of all 28 classes of Italian subs plus the 2 classes of foreign Subs they used. They also had several types of midget and special craft.

If you don't have a copy, i suggest you try and locate one.

Regards,

Myron

[greenman407]

I will check Amazon

[greenman407]

Just bought one used for $5.19 plus shipping. When it comes, maybe I will do a review on it. Thanks for the heads up Myron

[greenman407]

Good hull details

[modelnut]

Just bought one used for $5.19 plus shipping. When it comes, maybe I will do a review on it. Thanks for the heads up Myron

Bought one for $13 on Amazon. Should get it by mid September at the latest. :wink:

- Leelan

[greenman407]

Cool, we can compare notes.

[greenman407]

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

beautiful!

[greenman407]

A Los Angelos class and her lookouts. 2nd picture is a zoom in on what the lookout is watching with his binoculars, a 18 ship battlegroup.

[greenman407]

The Sweeds first one