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PERUVIAN NAVY (PERU)

SUBMARINES

PACOCHA submarines (1944/1974)

Pacocha 1980

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Pacocha (ex-Atule) 48   Portsmouth N Yd, USA 2.12.1943 6.3.1944 21.6.1944 // 31.7.1974 collision 26.8.1988
Pabelon da Pica (ex-Sea Poacher), 7.1974- La Pedrera 49   Portsmouth N Yd 23.2.1944 20.5.1944 31.7.1944 // 1.7.1974 deleted 1995

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

1830 / 2440

Length, m

93.6

Breadth, m

8.23

Draught, m

5.18

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Fairbanks-Morse 38D81/8 diesel-generators / 4 electric motors

Power, h. p.

4610 / 5400

Max speed, kts

17 / 15

Fuel, t

diesel oil 330

Endurance, nm(kts) 10000 (10) / 96 (2)

Armament

10 - 533 TT (24 torpedoes or 40 mines, 6 bow, 4 stern)

Electronic equipment

SS-2A radar, BQR-2B, BQS-4 sonars, BLR-1 ECM suite

Complement

82

Diving depth operational, m

120

Project history: Former USN Balao GUPPY IA submarines.

Modernizations: 1980s, both: + ECM suite

Naval service: Pacocha collided 26.8.1988 in surfaced condition with Japanese fishing boat off Callao and sunk. She was salvaged in 1989 but never commissioned again.

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