''Nazario Sauro'' (S 518) was the

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of thes of the

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Construction and career

''Nazario Sauro'' was

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Shipyard on 26 June 1974 and launched on 9 October 1976. She was commissioned on 1 March 1980. She was decommissioned on 30 April 2002. The submarine's disarmament started on 1 May 2002 as she was moored at the Arsenal of La Spezia together with the sister submarine ''Carlo Fecia di Cossato'', where she has been, since 2008, the subject of a restoration work for the transformation into a museum was implemented on behalf of the Institution of the Sea and Navigation Museums of Genoa, by the Fincantieri company, the same company that had built her in the late 1970s (then

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). At dawn on 18 September 2009 the ''Nazario Sauro'' left the La Spezia for her last voyage. Towed by tugs, she reached the ancient port of

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where on 26 September she was moored in the

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in front of the Galata Museum of the sea. The museum exhibition, designed and directed by the architect Roberto Bajano for the Galata - Sea Museum in collaboration with the Submarine Project Office of the Military Ships Directorate of Fincantieri, makes her the first museum ship in Italy visible in the water. The opening to the public took place on 29 May 2010.

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File:Sauro class.jpg, ''Nazario Sauro'' in active service File:Sottomarino - panoramio (2).jpg, ''Nazario Sauro'' as a

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File:Sommergibile Nazario Sauro 02.JPG File:Sommergibile Nazario Sauro 06.JPG File:Sommergibile Nazario Sauro 04.JPG File:Sommergibile Nazario Sauro 05.JPG File:SommergibileNazarioSauro1.jpg File:Genova - Calata Andalò di Negro - Sommergibile Nazario Sauro S518 - panoramio.jpg File:Genova-Sottomarino Nazario Sauro (10).JPG File:Darsena Sottomarino Nazario Sauro - panoramio - Stefano Mazzone.jpg

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nazario Sauro 1976 ships Sauro-class submarines Ships built by Fincantieri Museum ships in Italy

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