BAP Pisagua (SS-33)

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Career
Laid down: 15 August 1978
Launched: 19 October 1980
Commissioned: 12 July 1983
Homeport: Callao
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,180 t surfaced
1,285 t submerged
Length: 55.9 m
Beam: 6.4 m
Draft: 5.9 m
Propulsion: 4 MTU Type 12V493 AZ80 GA31L diesel engines
1 Siemens electric motor
1 shaft
4,600 hp
Speed: 11 knots surfaced
21 knots submerged
Range: 11,300 nm surfaced at 4 knots
Endurance: 40 days on patrol
Complement: 5 officers, 26 enlisted
Armament: 8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
14 SST-4 torpedoes
Motto: Vencer

BAP Pisagua (SS-33) is one of two Type 209/1200 submarines ordered by the Peruvian Navy on March 21, 1977. She was built by the German shipbuilder Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG at its shipyard in Kiel. She is named after the battle of Pisagua which took place between Chilean warships and Peruvian coastal artillery on November 2, 1879. While undergoing sea trials in the North Sea, she collided with a Soviet ship on April 8, 1982 and suffered damage which delayed its commissioning. She eventually arrived to its homeport of Callao in 1983.

[edit] Sources

  • Baker III, Arthur D., The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World 2002-2003. Naval Institute Press, 2002.
  • Ortiz Sotelo, Jorge, Apuntes para la historia de los submarinos peruanos. Biblioteca Nacional, 2001.