S-34 Cosme García

Country:  Spain

Class, [Type]: Balao, [SS].

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

Launch date: 30 August 1943.

Commission date: 01 October 1972.

Decommission date: 30 September 1982.

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 - USS Bang SS-385, a veteran from WWII received 6 battle stars for operations in the Pacific, responsible for the sinking of 8 ships, totalling 20.181 tonnes. Upgraded to GUPPY IIA after the conflict ended. Transferred to Spain in 1972.

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