Fagioli used a 360t (400 US ton) capacity gantry crane and a 400 US ton Liebherr telescopic mobile crane to hoist the craft out of the water and on to two 15-axle Cometto modular trailers. It moved the 445t (400t), 62m (203ft), 7m (23ft) high and 3m (10ft) wide submarine over 11 days with an average of 10 workers at any given time.
In addition to planning the trip, Fagioli’s team of technicians disconnected and reconnected power lines and removing and reinstalling 20 lamp posts, 12 traffic lights and numerous road signs. The technicians also had to take into consideration narrow, steep and curving streets, as well as seven 90-degree turns.
The submarine, the Enrico Toti, was moved from the port of Cremona to the Leonardo da Vinci Science and Technology Museum in Milan, Italy, where it is now on permanent display. Built in 1967 to track Russian nuclear-powered submarines, the Enrico Toti was disarmed and retired in the late 1990s. Although the move mostly occurred at night, hundreds of spectators gathered to watch the vessel’s trip.
