Italian submarine Balilla (1927)

History
Italy
Name	Balilla
Builder	Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano
Laid down	12 January 1925
Launched	2 February 1927
Completed	21 July 1928
Decommissioned	28 April 1941
Fate	Scrapped,
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Balilla-class submarine
Displacement	1,450 t (1,427 long tons) (surfaced); 1,904 t (1,874 long tons) (submerged);
Length	86.5 m (283 ft 10 in)
Beam	7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Draft	4.7 m (15 ft 5 in)
Installed power	4,900 bhp (3,700 kW) (diesels); 2,200 hp (1,600 kW) (electric motors);
Propulsion	2 shafts; diesel-electric; 2 × diesel engines; 2 × electric motors;
Speed	17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) (surfaced); 8.9 knots (16.5 km/h; 10.2 mph) (submerged);
Range	12,000 nmi (22,000 km; 14,000 mi) at 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) (surfaced); 110 nmi (200 km; 130 mi) at 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) (submerged);
Test depth	110 m (350 ft)
Complement	77
Armament	1 × single 120 mm (4.7 in) deck gun; 2 × single 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns; 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern);

Balilla was the lead ship of her class of four submarines built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) during the late 1920s.

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