Italian submarines in World War Two
Murena (UIT-16)
Murena
| Type | Sea going | |
| Class | Tritone (type I) (26) | |
| Laid down | 1 Apr 1942 | Odero-Terni-Orlando, Muggiano |
| Launched | 11 Apr 1943 | |
| Commissioned | 25 Aug 1943 | |
| End service | ||
| Stricken | ||
| Loss date | 9 Sep 1943 | |
| Loss position | 44° 05'N, 9° 50'E | |
| History | Scuttled at La Spezia on 9th September 1943 to prevent her capture by the Germans. Raised and renamed UIT-16 but repairs never completed. Destroyed in an air raid at Genoa on 4th September 1944. | |
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Commands
| Commander | Date from | Date to | Command notes |
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Ships hit
No ships hit by this submarine.Patrols and events
| Commander | Date | Time | Port | Arr. date | Arr. time | Arr. port | Miles | Description | ||
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| 11 Apr 1943 | La Spezia | 11 Apr 1943 | 0930 | La Spezia | Launched. | |||||
| 14 May 1943 | La Spezia | 14 May 1943 | La Spezia | Trials? Diverted by MAS 525 as she was on a collision course with Sparide. | ||||||
| 16 Jun 1943 | 1710 | La Spezia | 16 Jun 1943 | 1820 | La Spezia | Exercises. | ||||
| 21 Jun 1943 | 0945 | La Spezia | 21 Jun 1943 | 1600 | La Spezia | Trials. | ||||
| 2 Jul 1943 | 0930 | La Spezia | 2 Jul 1943 | 2050 | La Spezia | Trials. | ||||
| 5 Jul 1943 | 0925 | La Spezia | 5 Jul 1943 | 1725 | La Spezia | Trials. | ||||
| 11 Jul 1943 | 0935 | La Spezia | 11 Jul 1943 | 1655 | La Spezia | Trials. | ||||
| 24 Jul 1943 | La Spezia | 24 Jul 1943 | La Spezia | Carried human torpedoes to attack Gibraltar. This was actually misinformation, to hide the use of Olterra. | ||||||
| 25 Aug 1943 | La Spezia | 25 Aug 1943 | Entered service. | |||||||
| 6 Sep 1943 | 0855 | La Spezia | 6 Sep 1943 | 1845 | La Spezia | Trials. | ||||
| 9 Sep 1943 | La Spezia | 9 Sep 1943 | Scuttled | Scuttled after Armistice. One killed. Refloated by Germans and became UIT-16. In December 1943, she was being repaired by OTO works Muggiano, La Spezia. In May 1944, she was moved to Genoa with Grongo and Sparide. On 28th May 1944, she was ready to carry out human torpedoes. | ||||||
| 9 Sep 1943 | (0) La Spezia harbour. | At the time of the Armistice, Murena could not sail to join the Allies and was scuttled by her crew. The engineer officer was trapped and drowned and 2° Capo Palombaro Ario Lazzari [who had participated in the attack on Gibraltar in May 1943] from the 10th MAS recovered the body. The submarine was later raised at towed to Genoa and became the German UIT-16. | ||||||||
| 16 Mar 1944 | 16 Mar 1944 | Reported operational. | ||||||||
| 7 Aug 1944 | La Spezia | 9 Aug 1944 | Genoa | Passage La Spezia-Genoa (Note: it is not clear why the passage took so long, dates may be incorrect?). It is also reported that she was moved to Genoa with Grongo and Sparide in May 1944. | ||||||
| 4 Sep 1944 | Genoa | 4 Sep 1944 | Sunk | Sunk by RAF raid. Also reported as damaged in air raid. On 23rd August 1944, the Germans had requested training crews for Grongo, Murena and Sparide. | ||||||
| 4 Sep 1944 | (0) Genoa harbour | During an air raid by Allied aircraft, UIT-16 (ex-Murena) was bombed and sunk. | ||||||||
14 entries. 14 total patrol entries (0 marked as war patrols) and 2 events.