Type,
class:
Submarine; Nazario Sauro class - Batch
I
Builder: Fincantieri SpA, Monfalcone (Friuli-Venezia
Giulia), Italy
STATUS:
Laid
down: November 15, 1975
Launched: November 16, 1977
Commissioned:
November 5, 1979
Decommissioned: April
1, 2005
Fate:
laid up / finally scrapped in Aliaga, Turkey in 2024
Namesake:
Carlo Fecia di Cossato (1908-1944)
Ships
Motto:
NOBIS ARDUA (arduous tasks for us)
Technical Data:
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Carlo Fecia di Cossato (25 September 1908 - 27
August 1944)
... was an officer in the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy),
in command of submarines and torpedo boats during World War
II. He was credited with the confirmed sinking of 23 enemy
ships (16 Allied ships before the Armistice of Cassibile,
with the submarine Enrico Tazzoli, and 7 German vessels
after the armistice, with the torpedo boat Aliseo). He was
also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and
of the Gold Medal of Military Valor, the highest decoration
of the Italian Armed Forces.
Fecia di Cossato was born in Rome, Italy, on 25 September
1908. He graduated from the Naval Academy in Livorno in 1928
and assumed his duties as an officer at the Italian Naval
Detachment in China. In the early 1930s, he was an officer
on two submarines and his service included participation in
the Spanish Civil War.
At the beginning of World War II, Fecia di Cossato was the
commander of the submarine Ciro Menotti based in Messina;
after some months he was transferred to Bordeaux and given
command of the submarine Tazzoli. This submarine operated in
the Atlantic Ocean, sinking 18 ships with a total tonnage of
96,553 tons; 16 of these ships, for a total tonnage of
86,545 GRT, were sunk under Fecia di Cossato's command. In
February 1943, at the end of the mission near Brazil he was
transferred to Italy, where he was given command of a
squadron of torpedo boats.
After the Allies' Armistice with Italy, he fought with
bravery against German shipping near Bastia, sinking seven
enemy vessels. Fecia di Cossato was displeased with the
events of late 1943 and early 1944, and committed suicide in
Naples on 27 August 1944.
Decorations:
Gold Medal of Military Valour
Silver Medal of Military Valor (twice)
Bronze Medal of Military Valor (twice)
War Cross for Military Valor
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Iron Cross First Class
Iron Cross Second Class
source: wikipedia
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