Italian Navy, launched in 1913.
Displacement 394 tons. IHP 1,500. Speed 15.9 knts. Six 18 inch torpedo tubes.
Surface radius of action 1,300 miles.
Designed by Gino-Cavallini.
Log Book April 1982.
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Pullino (submarine)
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Re: GIACINTO PULLINO (submarine)
The set of six stamp was issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Armistice ending World War I in 1918, only the 40 lire stamp is interested for ship stamp collectors since it depicts five different types of Italian naval vessels used during this conflict.
The Italian Ministero Poste e Telecomunicazioni gives that is depict:
Battleship ANDREA DORIA
Destroyer ZEFFIRO.
Motor torpedo boat MAS 15.
Sea tank GRILLO
Submarine GIACINTO PULLINO.
Built as a submarine by the La Spezia Navy Dry-dock, La Spezia for the Italian Navy.
02 June 1912 keel laid down.
21 July 1913 launched as the GIACINTO PULLINO, named after the engineer Giacinto Pullino who designed the first Italian submarine the DELFINO. She was one of the Pullino class.
Displacement 355 ton surface and 405 ton submerged. Dim. 42.30 x 4.17 x 3.69m. (draught).
Powered by two Fiat diesel engines, 1,460 hp, 2 Savigliano electric motors, 520 hp., twin shafts, speed 17 knots on the surface.
Range by a speed 8 knots, 2,700 miles on the surface
Armament 1 – 57mm deck gun and 4 – 450mm torpedo tubes, two bow and two stern.
Crew 2 officers and 17 men.
12 December 1913 completed, under command of TV Alberto Bonini. After a training period based at La Spezia she joined the Third Submarine Squadron based in Taranto.
When war broke out she sailed to Venice and joined the Second Submarine Squadron for operation against the northern Austrian bases in the Adriatic.
During the first year of war she made 15 missions.
1916 Under command of Captain Carlo de Donato thereafter under command of TV Ubaldo Degli Uberti she completed 16 missions more.
July 1916 she torpedoed two Austrian ships, one torpedo hit the stern in which the ship was severe damaged and she lost the propeller, the other torpedo directed on the other steamer passed under the hull without exploding.
29 July 1916 in the evening she left Venice with on board a pilot Lt. Nazario Sauro for a raid on the port of Fiume, (now Rijeka.)
The commander decides to take the Quarnaro passage between the inlet and Isolotto della Galliola ed Unie, a very difficult passage to make in the night due to the some strong variable currents along the coast of Istria and Dalmatia.
The GIACINTO PULLINO would pass this passage around midnight during a moonless night without any coastal light; the passage was narrow and on one side bounded by a low lying island hardly visible.
To make the matter worse at dusk a dense fog developed with sudden squalls. Visibility even for the man near the bow was bad even they could not see the land before it was too late.
0.25 a.m. of the 30 July she ran aground on Galiola.
What the crew tried they could not refloat the GIANCINTO PULLINO and when daylight arrived the commander did give the order to destroy all documents and disable all equipment on board.
A sailor was swimming ashore were he found a dinghy, with the dinghy the second officer and some men went ashore where they seized a larger boat. As all hope to refloat the submarine was gone she abandoned the submarine and went on board the captured boat to try to escape.
The pilot Nazario Sauro well aware of his position would not further endanger the lives of the men of the submarine, and left at 05.15 a.m. alone on a raft with only one weapon and a little food he was captured by the Austrian Forces and hanged on the gallows as a irredentist.
In the meantime the Austro-Hungarian forces were informed of the grounding and orders were given to some torpedo-boats to look for the stranded submarine which they very quickly found, also the crew were discovered and captured.
The Austrian Navy managed to refloat the grounded sub, which was taken in tow to Pola, but during the tow she sank near Cape Promontore.
1929 She was refloated by the Italian Navy, where after she was scrapped the next year by a private company.
Italy 1968 40li sg1234, scott992 (She is on the bottom of the stamp.)
Source: Various web-sites. Wikipedia http://www.xmasgrupsom.com/Sommergibili/Pullino1.html
The Italian Ministero Poste e Telecomunicazioni gives that is depict:
Battleship ANDREA DORIA
Destroyer ZEFFIRO.
Motor torpedo boat MAS 15.
Sea tank GRILLO
Submarine GIACINTO PULLINO.
Built as a submarine by the La Spezia Navy Dry-dock, La Spezia for the Italian Navy.
02 June 1912 keel laid down.
21 July 1913 launched as the GIACINTO PULLINO, named after the engineer Giacinto Pullino who designed the first Italian submarine the DELFINO. She was one of the Pullino class.
Displacement 355 ton surface and 405 ton submerged. Dim. 42.30 x 4.17 x 3.69m. (draught).
Powered by two Fiat diesel engines, 1,460 hp, 2 Savigliano electric motors, 520 hp., twin shafts, speed 17 knots on the surface.
Range by a speed 8 knots, 2,700 miles on the surface
Armament 1 – 57mm deck gun and 4 – 450mm torpedo tubes, two bow and two stern.
Crew 2 officers and 17 men.
12 December 1913 completed, under command of TV Alberto Bonini. After a training period based at La Spezia she joined the Third Submarine Squadron based in Taranto.
When war broke out she sailed to Venice and joined the Second Submarine Squadron for operation against the northern Austrian bases in the Adriatic.
During the first year of war she made 15 missions.
1916 Under command of Captain Carlo de Donato thereafter under command of TV Ubaldo Degli Uberti she completed 16 missions more.
July 1916 she torpedoed two Austrian ships, one torpedo hit the stern in which the ship was severe damaged and she lost the propeller, the other torpedo directed on the other steamer passed under the hull without exploding.
29 July 1916 in the evening she left Venice with on board a pilot Lt. Nazario Sauro for a raid on the port of Fiume, (now Rijeka.)
The commander decides to take the Quarnaro passage between the inlet and Isolotto della Galliola ed Unie, a very difficult passage to make in the night due to the some strong variable currents along the coast of Istria and Dalmatia.
The GIACINTO PULLINO would pass this passage around midnight during a moonless night without any coastal light; the passage was narrow and on one side bounded by a low lying island hardly visible.
To make the matter worse at dusk a dense fog developed with sudden squalls. Visibility even for the man near the bow was bad even they could not see the land before it was too late.
0.25 a.m. of the 30 July she ran aground on Galiola.
What the crew tried they could not refloat the GIANCINTO PULLINO and when daylight arrived the commander did give the order to destroy all documents and disable all equipment on board.
A sailor was swimming ashore were he found a dinghy, with the dinghy the second officer and some men went ashore where they seized a larger boat. As all hope to refloat the submarine was gone she abandoned the submarine and went on board the captured boat to try to escape.
The pilot Nazario Sauro well aware of his position would not further endanger the lives of the men of the submarine, and left at 05.15 a.m. alone on a raft with only one weapon and a little food he was captured by the Austrian Forces and hanged on the gallows as a irredentist.
In the meantime the Austro-Hungarian forces were informed of the grounding and orders were given to some torpedo-boats to look for the stranded submarine which they very quickly found, also the crew were discovered and captured.
The Austrian Navy managed to refloat the grounded sub, which was taken in tow to Pola, but during the tow she sank near Cape Promontore.
1929 She was refloated by the Italian Navy, where after she was scrapped the next year by a private company.
Italy 1968 40li sg1234, scott992 (She is on the bottom of the stamp.)
Source: Various web-sites. Wikipedia http://www.xmasgrupsom.com/Sommergibili/Pullino1.html