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Portuguese Navy / Marinha Portuguesa
Delfim class Submarine
 
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Units:
Name  Laid down Launched Commissioned STATUS
Delfim 1933 1934 1935 stricken in 1950
Espadarte 1933 1934 1935 stricken in 1950
Golfinho 1933 1934 1935 stricken in 1950
 
Specifications:

Builder:
Vickers Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.

Displacement:
800 tons (surfaced) / 1090 tons (submerged)

Length: 69.2 meters (227 feet)
Beam: 6.5 meters (21 ft 4 in)
Draft: 3.9 meters (12 ft 10 in)
Speed: 16.5 knots (31 km/h), surfaced / 9.2 knots (17 km/h), submerged
Range: ?
Complement: 40

 
Propulsion:
DIESEL ELECTRIC
2 x
Vickers diesel generators
2 x electric motors
2 shafts / 2 propellers

 
Armament:
6 x 533 mm (21") torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
1 x QF4 102 mm (4") deck gun
  

Systems:
 
 
U.K. built series of three submarines for the Portuguese Navy. 
 
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