SALVATOR TODARA and SICRÉ submarines.
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:25 pm
For the 50th International Submarine Association Congress in Catania, Italy the Italian Post issued one stamp which shows us two submarines of the U212A or Todaro Class of the Italian Navy with in the background a conning tower from a submarine.
The two submarines in the foreground are the SALVATORE TODARO (S-526) and the SCIRÉ (S-527). (which is which I don’t know.)
There is two more of this type on order but so far I can find not yet in service in 2013.
The type is after a design of a German submarine type 212 and developed by the Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG.
Built as a submarine by Cantiere Navale del Muggiano, Italy for the Italian Navy.
03 July 1999 keel laid down.
06 November 2003 launched as the SALVATORE TODARO (S-526)
Displacement: 1,450 ton surface, 1,830 ton submerged, dim. 55.9 x 7 x 6m. (draught)
Powered by one MTU/PILLER, 2.85 MW and 1 electro motor Siemens, 2.85 MW, speed 12 knots surface, 20 knots submerged.
Range; surface, by a speed of 8 knots, 9,196 miles.
Test depth over 700 m.
Armament 6 torpedo tubes 533mm, carried 12 Whitehead A-184 A3 torpedo’s. Capable to carry up to 24 mines.
Crew 5 officers and 22 men.
29 March 2006 commissioned.
She are the most modern conventional diesel electric submarines in the world. The type can stay submerged for up to two weeks with a moderate speed without using a snorkel.
23 May 2008 she sailed out from Italy for a half year mission in the Atlantic Ocean, passed Gibraltar in June and after a call at Ponte Delgado in the Azores she made a submerged passage of 15 days before she on 4 July arrived in Hamilton, Bermuda.
11 July arrived at the Mayport Naval Station near Jacksonville in Florida to take part with nuclear-powered submarines of the US Navy and the aircraft carrier group ROOSEVELT in a Joint Task Fore Exercise.
After this she went to Norfolk then to Groton for other exercise with the US Navy before she from 10 to 15 October was moored in New York for the Columbus Day commemoration.
Early December she was back in Taranto after steaming 15,000 mile.
She was the first Italian submarine who visited the USA.
2013 In service.
SCIRÉ (S-527) was built also by Cantiere Navale del Muggiano.
27 July 2000 laid down.
18 December 2004 launched as the SCIRÉ (S-527)
Same details as the SALVATORE TODARO.
19 February 2007 commissioned.
2013 In service.
Italy 2013 0.70 Euro sg?, scott?
Source: Wikipedia.
.
The two submarines in the foreground are the SALVATORE TODARO (S-526) and the SCIRÉ (S-527). (which is which I don’t know.)
There is two more of this type on order but so far I can find not yet in service in 2013.
The type is after a design of a German submarine type 212 and developed by the Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG.
Built as a submarine by Cantiere Navale del Muggiano, Italy for the Italian Navy.
03 July 1999 keel laid down.
06 November 2003 launched as the SALVATORE TODARO (S-526)
Displacement: 1,450 ton surface, 1,830 ton submerged, dim. 55.9 x 7 x 6m. (draught)
Powered by one MTU/PILLER, 2.85 MW and 1 electro motor Siemens, 2.85 MW, speed 12 knots surface, 20 knots submerged.
Range; surface, by a speed of 8 knots, 9,196 miles.
Test depth over 700 m.
Armament 6 torpedo tubes 533mm, carried 12 Whitehead A-184 A3 torpedo’s. Capable to carry up to 24 mines.
Crew 5 officers and 22 men.
29 March 2006 commissioned.
She are the most modern conventional diesel electric submarines in the world. The type can stay submerged for up to two weeks with a moderate speed without using a snorkel.
23 May 2008 she sailed out from Italy for a half year mission in the Atlantic Ocean, passed Gibraltar in June and after a call at Ponte Delgado in the Azores she made a submerged passage of 15 days before she on 4 July arrived in Hamilton, Bermuda.
11 July arrived at the Mayport Naval Station near Jacksonville in Florida to take part with nuclear-powered submarines of the US Navy and the aircraft carrier group ROOSEVELT in a Joint Task Fore Exercise.
After this she went to Norfolk then to Groton for other exercise with the US Navy before she from 10 to 15 October was moored in New York for the Columbus Day commemoration.
Early December she was back in Taranto after steaming 15,000 mile.
She was the first Italian submarine who visited the USA.
2013 In service.
SCIRÉ (S-527) was built also by Cantiere Navale del Muggiano.
27 July 2000 laid down.
18 December 2004 launched as the SCIRÉ (S-527)
Same details as the SALVATORE TODARO.
19 February 2007 commissioned.
2013 In service.
Italy 2013 0.70 Euro sg?, scott?
Source: Wikipedia.
.