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PORTUGUESE NAVY (PORTUGAL)

SUBMARINES

FOCA submarines (1917)

Foca 1917

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Foca (ex-F19) F   Fiat-San Giorgio, La Spezia, Italy 1915 18.4.1917 1917 discarded 1935
Golfinho (ex-F20) G   Fiat-San Giorgio, La Spezia, Italy 1915 1917 1917 discarded 1934
Hidra (ex-F21) H   Fiat-San Giorgio, La Spezia, Italy 1915 9.8.1917 1917 discarded 1935
  

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

262 / 382

Length, m

45.6

Breadth, m

4.20

Draught, m

3.10 mean 3.20 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Fiat diesels / 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

550 / 400

Max speed, kts

14.2 / 8.2

Fuel, t

diesel oil 14

Endurance, nm(kts) 3500(8.5) / 100(4)

Armament

2 - 450 TT (bow, 4)

Complement

21

Diving depth operational, m 40

Project history: Laurenti-Fiat type, enlarged Espadarte with better endurance. Sister-ships of Spanish submarines of A (Narciso Monturiol) class.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Golfinho 1917

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