Posted on 01/02/2022 12:57:22 PM PST by texas booster
Greek divers have discovered the wreckage of an Italian submarine 80 years after it was sunk by the Allied Forces in the Aegean Sea during World War Two, Ekathimerini reports. She was discovered last month by Greek wreck hunter diver, Kostas Thoctarides and his team, south of the island of Mykonos at a depth of 337 feet. The stricken sub was located by the ROV Super Achilles.
The Argonauta-class submarine Jantina, which had sailed from the Greek island of Leros under the command of C.C. Vincenzo Politi with 47 crew on board, was sent to the bottom on the night of 5 July 1941, after being hit by a spread of six torpedoes fired by British T-class submarine HMS Torbay (N79). Six Italians survived by swimming to the coast while Politi and 38 ratings perished.
During WWII, some 116 Italian submarines sailed against the Allies or supported those that did, chalking up 130 ships sunk for a total of some 700,000 tons of shipping. In exchange, they lost 96 of their submersibles, many with all hands, their hulls cracked on the seafloor. Some 3,000 submariners of the Regina Marina are still on eternal patrol.
The view of the deck gun of the Italian submarine Jantina that was sunk during World War II by the British submarine HMS Torbay, south of the island of Mykonos, in the Aegean Sea, Greece, November 3, 2021. Kostas Thoctarides
Found 337' down in the Aegean Sea.
Italian submarine JANTINA, in her wartime camo
where’s the screen door?
The seven Argonauta-class submarines all saw combat in WWII, with five being sunk and a sixth was scuttled at the Italian armistice in 1943. The last surviving boat of the class, Jalea, survived the carnage and was stricken in 1948.
Nice website about military history, guns and real life.
Va fungu, amici...
Italian Sub…let’s have lunch!
That’s cold, but LOL.
The deck guns of U-boats were the primary weapon when raiding shipping; they would surface next to merchant ships, warn them to abandon ship, and then use the deck gun to put holes below the waterline. Later they had to resort to torpedoes exclusively because of convoys, escorts, even planes that could be launched by convoys. The problem was they could carry far more shells than torpedoes...
I just sunk 20 minutes learning about hammocks on that site. Lol.
Thanks for the link.
A. To see the OLD Italian Navy!
Q. What is the world's SECOND smallest book?
A. The Book Of Italian War Heroes And Their Deeds The smallest is, 'The Demonstrated Intelligence Of Justin Trudeau'
Q. How do you separate the men from the boys in the Italian Navy?
A. With a crowbar!
"I'm here all week! Try the veal."
Look also at Britains HMS M1 M and HMS X1 submersible cruisers. The Japanese I400s are interesting. We apparently had plans drawn up for bigger and better versions that never made it off the drawing board. Our later considerations related to closing the submersible aircraft carrier gap, This Aircraft Carrier Could Go Underwater... IMPOSSIBLE Submarine Aircraft Carrier
I think the even later flying submarines was a better idea but thats a different conversation.
Q. What was the difference between German and Italian submarines in WW2?
A. The German subs just sat and waited for convoys.
The Italian subs were always Roman.
Nothing quite like a good Italian sub.
Where did the name U-Boat come from? The Original Italian U-Boat was a successful submarine sandwich restaurant in Chicago that swelled from a single location in 1975 to 32 stores in its heyday, only to file for bankruptcy and close during the recession in 1983. Chicagoans remember it fondly, according to this article. There isn’t a recipe for their U-Boat Sub online, although it may exist in someone’s attic. The Grill-Meister’s U-Boat is similar to recipes for an Italian Sub, although it has a German spin with the Black Forest ham and garlic bologna.
https://glovergardens.com/2017/03/big-food-for-good-times-the-u-boat-sub/
Funny, that’s just what I did!
I will post that article next after the family heads home.
I wonder what sleeping in hammocks would be like on a big ship?
I think the Brits in the Med would argue with you about this.
The Italian navy in WWII was quite the threat to the convoys going to Malta and Egypt.
The Soldiers were also quite brave, but, VERY poorly led.
I would never say anything bad about any Italian soldier or sailor.
Thanks for the posts. I always feel sad for seaman who perished in these war machines, even our enemies. Just a really dark, cold, terrifying way to go. Here, at least, there was a bit of a chance to escape the sinking craft. R.I.P.
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