S-163 Albacora

Country:  Portugal

Class, [Type]: Daphné, [SS].

Builder: Dubigeon-Normandie, Nantes, France.

Launch date: 13 October 1966.

Commission date: 01 October 1967.

Decommission date: 14 July 2000.

Displacement ( tons ): 869 surfaced, 1.043 submerged.

Dimensions ( metres ): 57,8 x 6,8 x 5,2

Main machinery: 2 x SEMT-Pielstick 12 PA4 V 185 V diesel-electric ( 2.450 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 13,5 surfaced, 16 submerged.

Range ( miles ): 2.130 at 10 knots and snorkel, 2.710 surfaced at 12,5 knots.

Complement: 55 ( 8 officers ).

Torpedoes: 12 x 550mm tubes. 12 torpedoes: ECAN E14/15 and/or ECAN L3.

Radar: Surface search: Kelvin Hughes KH 1007, I band.

Sonar: Thomson Sintra DSUV 2, Thomson Sintra DUUA 2.

Countermeasures: ESM: ARUR ( radar warning ).

Callsign: CTSD ()

Comment: Diving depth: 300m. Crash depth : 575m.

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