Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci (S 520) was a of the Italian Navy. Construction and career Leonardo da Vinci was laid down at Fincantieri Monfalcone Shipyard on 1 July 1976 and launched on 20 October 1979. She was commissioned on 6 November 1982. She has participated in important national and international exercises and in 1989, on the occasion of the international exercise Tapon, she was the first post-war Italian-built submarine to cross the Strait of Gibraltar in submersion, under air and naval conflict under the command of the lieutenant captain Luigi de Benedictis, almost half a century after the glorious ancestor of the Regia Marina, a unit that under the command of the Gianfranco Gazzana-Priaroggia had the primacy of the greatest tonnage of enemy ships sunk during the Second World War. Entered into reserve fleet (RTD) on 31 December 2007.