S-33 Narciso Monturiol

Country:  Spain

Class, [Type]: Balao, [SS].

Builder: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

Launch date: 12 July 1943.

Commission date: 01 October 1972.

Decommission date: 30 March 1977.

Displacement ( tons ): 1.525 surfaced, 2.415 submerged.

Dimensions ( metres ): 95 x 8,3 x 4,7

Main machinery: 4 x Fairbanks-Morse diesels ( 5.400 hp ), 4 x Elliot Motor Co. electric engines ( 2.740 hp ), 2 x propellers.

Speed ( knots ): 23 surfaced, 11 submerged.

Range ( miles ): 11.000 at 10 knots ( surfaced ), 95 at 5 knots ( submerged ). Patrol endurance was 75 days.

Complement: 70 ( 10 officers ).

Guns: As built: 1 x 127mm, 1 x 40mm, 1 x 20mm, all later removed.

Torpedoes: 10 x 533mm tubes: 6 forward, 4 aft. 24 torpedoes: 16 forward and 8 aft.

Military lift: Fuel: 479tm.

Sonar: AN/BQS-4.

Comment: Ex - Obispo, Ex - USS Picuda SS-382, a veteran from WWII received 6 battle stars for operations in the Pacific, responsible for the sinking of 13 ships including two warships, totalling 49.539 tonnes. Upgraded to GUPPY IIA after the conflict ended. Transferred to Spain in 1972.

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