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Portuguese Navy / Marinha Portuguesa Neptuno / ex UK S-class Submarine |
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Displacement: 840 tons (surfaced) / 990 tons (submerged) Length: 66 meters (217 feet) Beam: 7.16 meters (23 ft 6 in) Draft: 3.4 meters (11 ft) Speed: 14.75 knots (27 km/h), surfaced / 8 knots (15 km/h), submerged Range: 7500 NM (13900 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h), surfaced 120 NM (220 km) at 3 knots (5.6 km/h), submerged Complement: 48 Propulsion: DIESEL ELECTRIC 2 x diesel generators 2 x electric motors 2 shafts / 2 propellers Armament: 12 x 533 mm (21") torpedo tubes (6 bow, 1 stern) for Mark VIII heavy-weight torpedoes 1 x QF4 102 mm (4") deck gun Systems: |
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The S-class submarines of the Royal Navy were originally designed
and built during the modernisation of the submarine force in the
early 1930s to meet the need for smaller boats to patrol the
restricted waters of the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea,
replacing the British H-class submarines. As part of the major naval
construction for the Royal Navy during the Second World War, the S
class became the single largest group of submarines ever built for
the Royal Navy. A total of 62 were constructed over a period of 15
years, with fifty of the "improved" S class being launched between
1940 and 1945. 3 units from the third production group were transferred to Portugal in 1948. |
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 P 265 HMS Spur > later S 160 NRP Narval S 161 NRP Nautilo  P 257 HMS Saga > later S 161 NRP Nautilo  P 263 HMS Spearhead > later S 162 NRP Neptuno |
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