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PLONGEUR submarine (1892)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Plongeur     Arsenal de Marinha de Lisboa   1892 1892 discarded 1910


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement normal, t/ 100
Length, m

22.0

Breadth, m

3.50

Draught, m 
No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 electric motors

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts

/ 6

Fuel, t

battery only

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

4 - 356 Nordenfelt TC

Complement

6

Diving depth operational, m 


Project history

This boat was designed by Fontes Pereiro de Mello, and was cylindrical in shape, ending forward in a cone. She dived and surfaced by use of ballast tanks and horizontal rudders; the motors were powered by accumulators.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.