Remo (RE)
Remo

Type	Transport
Class	R 1 (33)
Laid down	5 Sep 1942	Cantieri Navale Tosi di Taranto, Taranto
Launched	28 Mar 1943
Commissioned	19 Jun 1943
End service
Stricken
Loss date	15 Jul 1943
Loss position	39° 19'N, 17° 30'E
History
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk on 15th July 1943 in the Gulf of Taranto in position 39°19'N, 17°30'E by the submarine HMS United.

Commands

Commander	Date from	Date to	Command notes
T.V. Salvatore Vassallo	19 Jun 1943	15 Jul 1943

Ships hit

No ships hit by this submarine.

Patrols and events

	Commander	Date	Time	Port	Arr. date	Arr. time	Arr. port	Miles	Description
		16 Apr 1943	1210	Taranto	16 Apr 1943	1808	Taranto		Trials.
		20 Apr 1943	0814	Taranto	20 Apr 1943	1555	Taranto		Trials.
		21 Apr 1943	0825	Taranto	21 Apr 1943	1413	Taranto		Trials.
		23 Apr 1943	0814	Taranto	23 Apr 1943	1457	Taranto		Trials.
		3 May 1943	1155	Taranto	3 May 1943	1218	Taranto		Trials.
		5 May 1943	0918	Taranto	5 May 1943	1720	Taranto		Trials.
		3 Jun 1943	0830	Taranto	3 Jun 1943	1821	Taranto		Trials.
		4 Jun 1943	0742	Taranto	4 Jun 1943	1256	Taranto		Trials.
		7 Jun 1943	1345	Taranto	7 Jun 1943	1825	Taranto		Trials.
		9 Jun 1943	0710	Taranto	9 Jun 1943	1447	Taranto		Trials.
		12 Jun 1943	0820	Taranto	12 Jun 1943	1207	Taranto		Trials.
	Vassallo, Salvatore	21 Jun 1943	0800	Taranto	21 Jun 1943	1820	Taranto	60	Exercises.
	Vassallo, Salvatore	27 Jun 1943	1215	Taranto	27 Jun 1943	2129	Taranto	50	Exercises with the torpedo boat Fabrizi and the auxiliary Claretta.
	Vassallo, Salvatore	29 Jun 1943	1040	Taranto	29 Jun 1943	2100	Taranto	70	Exercises.
	Vassallo, Salvatore	1 Jul 1943	1152	Taranto	1 Jul 1943	2040	Taranto		Exercises.
	Vassallo, Salvatore	2 Jul 1943	0645	Taranto	2 Jul 1943	1155	Taranto		Exercises with the submarine Romolo and the torpedo boats Pegaso and Partenope.
	Vassallo, Salvatore	11 Jul 1943	0433	Taranto	11 Jul 1943	1945	Taranto		Exercises.
	Vassallo, Salvatore	13 Jul 1943	0610	Taranto	14 Jul 1943	0640	Taranto	400	Exercises [mileage estimated since 1st July].
1	Vassallo, Salvatore	15 Jul 1943	1221	Taranto	15 Jul 1943	1830	Sunk		On passage Taranto-Naples. Attacked by HMS United with four torpedoes and sunk. She was to have been loaded with ammunition on 5th July to sail on 10th July for Augusta, but the invasion of Sicily brought a change in plan.
		15 Jul 1943	1830 1831B (e)	(e) 38° 19'N, 17° 30'E	At about 1830 hours, Remo was proceeding on the surface when she was struck by a torpedo and sunk. The culprit was the submarine HMS United (Lieutenant John Charles Young Roxburgh, DSC, RN). She was part of a barrage line (with HMS Unbroken, HMS Unshaken, HMS Uproar and ORP Dzik) at the entrance of the Gulf of Taranto, deployed at the beginning of Operation HUSKY (the invasion of Sicily). At 1809B hours, the British submarine had sighted an object at a distance of 4 miles. Five minutes, later it was identified as an Italian submarine steering 140° at 10 knots and it was not zigzagging. United crossed the enemy's bow and made a turn to get the sun behind her. At 1831B hours, United fired four torpedoes from a range of 500 yards. The first torpedo missed ahead, but the second and third torpedoes hit 31 and 41 seconds after the first torpedo was fired. The U-boat was seen to rise out of the water at an angle of 60° then sank stern first in about 45 seconds. At 1836B hours, four survivors were seen through the periscope. Thirteen minutes later, the British submarine surfaced to pick them up. They were T.V. Salvatore Vassallo, his navigating officer and two ratings. Five officers and fifty ratings perished.

19 entries. 19 total patrol entries (1 marked as war patrols) and 1 events.

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