Nautilo (UIT-19)
Nautilo

Type	Sea going
Class	Tritone (type I) (26)
Laid down	3 Jan 1942	Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Monfalcone
Launched	20 Mar 1943
Commissioned	26 Jul 1943
End service	9 Sep 1943
Stricken
Loss date	9 Jan 1944
Loss position	44° 52'N, 13° 50'E
History	Captured by the Germans on 9th September 1943. Renamed UIT-19 but never commissioned. Destroyed in an air raid at Pola on 9th January 1944. Raised postwar and commissioned by the Yugoslav Navy as Sava. Decommissioned by them in 1967 and scrapped in 1971.
Fate

Commands

Commander	Date from	Date to	Command notes

Ships hit

No ships hit by this submarine.

Patrols and events

	Commander	Date	Time	Port	Arr. date	Arr. time	Arr. port	Miles	Description
		20 Mar 1943		Monfalcone	20 Mar 1943		Monfalcone		Launched.
		15 Jun 1943	0910	Monfalcone	15 Jun 1943	1733	Monfalcone		Trials.
		16 Jun 1943	0915	Monfalcone	16 Jun 1943	1135	Monfalcone		Trials.
		30 Jun 1943	0915	Monfalcone	30 Jun 1943	1850	Pola		Passage Monfalcone-Pola.
		1 Jul 1943	1445	Pola	1 Jul 1943	1840	Pola		Trials.
		2 Jul 1943	1405	Pola	2 Jul 1943	1755	Pola		Trials.
		3 Jul 1943	0840	Pola	3 Jul 1943	1915	Pola		Trials.
		5 Jul 1943	0535	Pola	5 Jul 1943	1840	Pola		Trials.
		6 Jul 1943	0850	Pola	6 Jul 1943	1935	Monfalcone		Trials. The submarine was delivered to the Regia Marina on 26th July 1943.
		26 Jul 1943		Monfalcone	26 Jul 1943		Monfalcone		Entered service.
		27 Jul 1943	1000	Monfalcone	27 Jul 1943	1330	Monfalcone		Trials.
		30 Jul 1943	0900	Monfalcone	30 Jul 1943	1300	Monfalcone		Trials.
		2 Aug 1943	0830	Monfalcone	2 Aug 1943	1305	Pola		Passage Monfalcone-Pola.
		3 Aug 1943	1350	Pola	3 Aug 1943	1805	Pola		Exercises.
		5 Aug 1943	0805	Pola	5 Aug 1943	1130	Pola		Exercises.
		7 Aug 1943	1350	Pola	7 Aug 1943	1610	Pola		Exercises.
		9 Aug 1943	0820	Pola	9 Aug 1943	1230	Pola		Exercises.
		11 Aug 1943	0735	Pola	11 Aug 1943	1205	Monfalcone		Passage Pola-Monfalcone at 15 knots.
		16 Aug 1943	Time?	Monfalcone	16 Aug 1943	1445	Monfalcone		Exercises.
		17 Aug 1943	0800	Monfalcone	17 Aug 1943	1300	Monfalcone		Exercises.
		18 Aug 1943	1245	Monfalcone	18 Aug 1943	1300	Monfalcone		Exercises.
		8 Sep 1943	PM or 1245/9?	Monfalcone	9 Sep 1943	1712	Venice		Passage Monfalcone-Venice.
		10 Sep 1943		Venice	10 Sep 1943		Scuttled		Attempted to escape (carrying part of the crews from Argo and Beilul including her C.O. T.V. Pasquale Beltrame) with the small submarine CM.1 to join the allies but stopped by German S-boats and diverted to Venice. Scuttled after armistice. Captured by Germans and renamed UIT-19.
		4 Dec 1943		Venice	4 Dec 1943		Trieste		Passage Venice-Trieste, towed by tug Petronia with lighter and tanker Liguria, escorted by Medea (I.V.54).
		9 Jan 1944		Pola	9 Jan 1944		Sunk		Sunk by USAAF (direct hit). Post-war was raised by the Yugoslav and became the Sava, served until 1971.
		9 Jan 1944	1100-1215	(0) Pola harbour.	During an raid by 107 Liberators of the USAAF 15th Air Force, escorted by 47 Thunderbolts and Lightnings, the German submarine UIT-19 (ex-Nautilo) was sunk.

25 entries. 25 total patrol entries (0 marked as war patrols) and 1 events.

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