Jantina
Country | Italy |
Ship Class | Argonauta-class Submarine |
Builder | Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano, Liguria, Italy |
Launched | 16 Jun 1932 |
Sunk | 5 Jul 1941 |
Displacement | 660 tons standard; 1,097 tons submerged |
Length | 202 feet |
Beam | 19 feet |
Draft | 15 feet |
Machinery | 2 diesel engines (1,500bhp), 2 electric motors (800hp), 2 shafts |
Speed | 14 knots |
Range | 5,000nm at 8 knots surfaced, 110nm at 3 knots submerged |
Crew | 48 |
Armament | 1x102mm gun, 2x13.2mm machine guns, 4x533mm bow torpedo tubes, 2x533mm stern torpedo tubes, 12x torpedoes |
Submerged Speed | 8 knots |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseArgonauta-class submarine Jantina was laid down in 1930, launched in 1932, and completed in 1933. During a 15-day long patrol off Barcelona, Spain in Aug 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, she attacked a Spanish Republican destroyer with torpedoes, but both had missed. Jantina was lost in the Aegean Sea in 1941 during WW2 in an unusual submarine vs. submarine confrontation in which she was torpedoed and sunk by HMS Torbay. Only 6 of the 48 aboard survived the sinking and swam to the Greek island of Delos. In Nov 2021, her wreckage was discovered at the depth of 103 meters (338 feet) by a team led by Kostas Thoctarides, using a remotely operated underwater vehicle. The identity of the wreckage was confirmed by the Italian Naval History Office.
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Last Major Revision: Jan 2022
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16 Jun 1932 | Jantina was launched by Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano, Liguria, Italy. |
12 Aug 1937 | Jantina began a patrol off Barcelona, Spain. |
27 Aug 1937 | Jantina completed a patrol off Barcelona, Spain. |
5 Jul 1941 | British submarine HMS Torbay sank Italian submarine Jantina by torpedo in the Aegean Sea south of the island of Mykonos, Greece. |
3 Nov 2021 | The wreckage of Jantina was discovered by a team led by Kostas Thoctarides in the Aegean Sea. |
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