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SUBMARINES

PİRİ REİS submarines (1951-1952/1980-1983)

Piri Reis 1990

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Hızır Reis (ex-Gudgeon) S342   Portsmouth N Yd, Kittery, USA 20.5.1950 11.6.1952 21.11.1952 // 30.9.1983 stricken 1.2004
Piri Reis (ex-Tang) S343   Portsmouth N Yd, Kittery, USA 18.4.1949 19.6.1951 25.10.1951 // 21.4.1980 stricken 8.2004

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

2050 / 2700

Length, m

87.5

Breadth, m

8.33

Draught, m

5.80

No of shafts

2

Machinery

3 Fairbank Morse 38D81/8x10 diesel-generators, 2 Westinghuse electric motors

Power, h. p.

4500 / 5600

Max speed, kts

15.5 / 18

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 11500(10) / 130 (3)

Armament

8 - 533 TT (6 bow Mk 43, 2 stern Mk 44, 26 Mk 48, Mk 23, Mk 37 Mod.2 torpedoes or 40 mines)

Electronic equipment

BPS-12 radar, BQS-4, BQR-2B, BQG-4 PUFFS sonars, WLR-1 ECM suite

Complement

86

Diving depth operational, m

210

Project history: Former USN Tang class submarines. Purchased outright 6.8.1987.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Piri Reis 1988

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