Built as a submarine by Tosi, Taranto, Italy for the Italian Navy.
15 October 1931 laid down.
27 May 1934 launched as the TORRICELLI one of the Archimedes class.
Displacement 880 ton standard, 1,239 ton submerged, dim. 70.5 x 6.87 x 4.12m. (draught)
Powered by Tosi diesels, 3000 hp, speed 17 knots, surface. Marelli Electric motors 1,100 hp, speed 8 knots, submerged.
Range by a speed of 8 knots, 10,500 mile surface, by a speed of 3 knots, 105 mile submerged.
Test depth 90 metre.
Armament 2 – 100/43 OTO 1927 deck guns, 2 – 13.2 inch AA guns and 8 – 533 mm torpedo tubes, 4 bow and 4 stern, carried 16 torpedoes.
Crew 55.
10 December 1934 commissioned.
In the autumn of 1936 transferred to the Spanish Nationalists forces, serving under Italian flag and with an Italian crew, renamed GENERAL MOLA.
Early 1937 assigned to Government of Franco, the crew was secretly replaced with Spanish crew on 24 July 1937.
For the concealment of the Italian name till August 1937 she carried the name of a lost Spanish submarine C 5.
September/November 1937 under repair at Taranto.
She was quite successful in the civil war, she sank four ships and damaged one.
After the Spanish Civil war she served even two decades under Spanish flag.
1950 She underwent a modernization one deck-gun was re-moved.
September 1959 was she stricken.
When towed to the north from Cartagena to the breakers on May 1959 the tow was lost and the submarine stranded off Pontevedra.
Sold to a salvage company which blow her up in 1963, till today divers find some pieces of the submarine.
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Source: Various internet sites.