Italian submarine Luigi Torelli
| History | |
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| Italy | |
| Name | Luigi Torelli |
| Namesake | Luigi Torelli |
| Builder | Oto (La Spezia, Italy) |
| Laid down | 15 February 1939 |
| Launched | 6 January 1940 |
| Commissioned | 15 May 1940 |
| Homeport | BETASOM, Bordeaux |
| Fate | Seized by the Japanese on 8 September 1943 and handed over to Nazi Germany on 10 September 1943 |
| Service record as Luigi Torelli | |
| Commanders: |
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| Victories: |
7 merchant ships sunk (42,968 GRT) |
| Nazi Germany | |
| Name | UIT-25 |
| Acquired | 10 September 1943 |
| Commissioned | 6 December 1943 |
| Fate | Incorporated into the Japanese Navy following the German surrender on 10 May 1945 |
| Service record as UIT-25 | |
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| Identification codes: | M 32 441 |
| Commanders: | |
| Operations: | 3 patrols |
| Victories: | None |
| Japan | |
| Name | I-504 |
| Acquired | 10 May 1945 |
| Commissioned | 14 July 1945 |
| Fate | Captured by the U.S. Navy and scuttled on 16 April 1946 |
| Service record as I-504 | |
| Commanders: |
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| Operations: | None |
| Victories: | None |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Marconi-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 251 ft (77 m) |
| Beam | 22.4 ft (6.8 m) |
| Draught | 15.6 ft (4.8 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 33.0 / 15.2 km/h (17.8 / 8.2 kn) (surfaced/submerged) |
| Complement | 57 |
| Armament |
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Italian submarine Luigi Torelli was a Marconi-class submarine of the Italian navy during World War II. The vessel operated in the Atlantic from September 1940 until mid-1943, then was sent to the Far East. After Italy's surrender in 1943, the Luigi Torelli was taken over by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, then, in the waning months of the war, the Japanese Imperial Navy. It was one of only two ships to serve in all three major Axis navies. The other, also an Italian submarine and a sister submarine of Luigi Torelli, was Comandante Cappellini.