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PORTUGUESE NAVY (PORTUGAL)

SUBMARINES

PLONGEUR submarine (1892)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Plongeur     Arsenal de Marinha de Lisboa   1892 1892 discarded 1910
  

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

/ 100

Length, m

22.0

Breadth, m

3.50

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

/ 6

Fuel, t

battery only

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

4 - 356 Nordenfelt TC

Complement

6

Diving depth operational, m  

Project history: This boat was designed by Fontes Pereiro de Mello, and was cylindrical in shape, ending forward in a cone. She dived and surfaced by use of ballast tanks and horizontal rudders; the motors were powered by accumulators.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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