Namesake Enrico Toti Launched 12 March 1967 Status Museum ship Construction started 4 November 1965 | Laid down 15 April 1965 Commissioned 22 January 1968 Length 46 m Builder Fincantieri | |
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Fate Transported to Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", in Milan. | ||
Un sottomarino su ruote museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia leonardo da vinci
Italian submarine Enrico Toti (S506) was the first of a new class of Italian submarine (Toti-class), with the S506 Enrico Toti being laid down in 1965, launched in 1967, decommissioned in 1992 and preserved as a museum ship in Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", in Milan. The ship, and class, are named after the Italian Enrico Toti.
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- Un sottomarino su ruote museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia leonardo da vinci
- History
- Technical data
- References
History
The submarine was built by Fincantieri in Monfalcone, between 1965 and 1967, and given to the Italian Navy in 1968; Soon after that three more identical units were added to what is called the "classe Toti". They are small submarines (so small that they were called “pocket sized submarines”), employed from the late 1960s until the end of the 90s. They were conceived to work inside the Mediterranean sea and have never had to face real war situations. They had two main tasks:
- patrol the Mediterranean sea with special attention to the Channel of Sicily during the Cold War; for this reason their main base was the Military Arsenal of Augusta (Syracuse);
- participate in NATO exercises with other submarines (US).
The Enrico Toti arrived at the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci" in August 2005 with a trip in two steps:
Another Toti-class unit is on exhibition at the Arsenale in Venice, while the remaining two are still in Augusta and are scheduled for scrapping.
In 2016, the Italian telephonic company TIM filmed a TV spot with people dancing, including Santa Claus on a beach, some Star Wars First Order Stormtroopers, an astronaut with an Apollo/Skylab A7L spacesuit on the Moon and two sailors on the harbour mole-like entrance of the museum ship.