Country: Spain
Class, [Type]: Balao, [SS].
Builder: Portsmouth Navy Yard, Maine, U.S.A.
Launch date: 27 January 1944.
Commission date: 01 July 1971.
Decommission date: 02 June 1984.
Displacement ( tons ): 1.878 surfaced, 2.479 submerged.
Dimensions ( metres ): 93,6 x 8,3 x 5,2
Main machinery: 4 x Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8? diesels, 4 x Elliot electric engines.
Speed ( knots ): 17 surfaced, 14,1 submerged.
Range ( miles ): 11.000 at 10 knots ( surfaced ), 95 at 5 knots ( submerged ). Patrol endurance was 75 days.
Complement: 70 ( 10 officers ).
Guns: Originally 1 x 127mm, 1 x 40mm, 1 x 20mm. All removed after completion of GUPPY IIA program.
Torpedoes: 10 x 533mm tubes: 6 forward, 4 aft. 24 torpedoes: 16 forward and 8 aft. Initially armed with Mk14 torpedoes, in the last years of his career changed to Mk37.
Military lift: Fuel: 479tm.
Sonar: Passive: AN/BQR-2 B. Active: AN/BQS-4 C.
Comment: Ex - USS SS-396 Ronquil. Transferred to Spain in 1971.
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