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DOLFIJN submarine (1942/1948)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Dolfijn (ex-Taurus, ex-P313) S811 813 Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK 9.1941 27.6.1942 11.1942 // 6.1948 to United Kingdom 6.1953 (Taurus), BU 4.1960


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1090

Displacement normal, t

1327 / 1575

Length, m

83.8

Breadth, m

8.10

Draught, m

4.52

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Vickers diesels / 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

2500 / 1450

Max speed, kts

15.25 / 9

Fuel, t

diesel oil up to 215

Endurance, nm(kts)

8000(10) /

Armament

11 - 533 TT (6 bow, 2 ext bow, 3 ext stern, 17 torpedoes or 18 M2 mines), 1 x 1 - 102/40 S I, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk IIA S/M

Electronic equipment

type 286PW or type 291W radar, type 129, type 138 sonars

Complement

61

Diving depth operational, m

95



Standard scale images


<i>Dolfijn</i> 1948
Dolfijn 1948


Project history

British T class submarine (1940 programme), lent to the Netherlands from 1948 until 1953.

Modernizations

early 1950s: - 1 x 1 - 20/70

Naval service

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.