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SPANISH NAVY (SPAIN)

SUBMARINES

PERAL submarine (1890)

Names

Peral

Builders

Carraca, Cadiz: Peral

Completed

6/1890: Peral

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

1909: Peral

  

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

/ 87

Length, m

21.3

Breadth, m

2.60

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

60

Max speed, kts

/ 10

Fuel, t

battery only

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 - 356 TT (bow, 3)

Complement

6

Diving depth operational, m 50

Project history: Designed by Lt Isaac Peral y Caballero. She dived and surfaced using ballast tanks and vertical screws, below the cigar-shaped hull fwd and aft. The motors were powered by accumulators, and two spare Schwarzkopf torpedoes could be carried.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Peral

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