| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Abtao |
| Namesake: | Battle of Abtao |
| Builder: | Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut |
| Acquired: | 1 March 1954 |
| Decommissioned: | 1998 |
| Renamed: | from Tiburón to Abtao, April 1957 |
| Status: | Museum ship since 2004 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type: | Submarine |
| Displacement: | 825 long tons (838 t) surfaced 1,400 long tons (1,422 t) submerged |
| Length: | 243 ft (74 m) |
| Beam: | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Armament: | • 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (4 forward, 2 aft) • 1 × 5 in (130 mm)/25 caliber gun |
BAP Abtao (SS-42) was a Abtao-class submarine of the Peruvian Navy.
The submarine was built by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut and delivered on 1 March 1954.[2] She initially served as Tiburón ("Shark"), but was renamed Abtao in April 1957. Originally assigned pennant number 5, in 1959 she was designated SS-2, then renumbered SS-42 in 1960. The submarine was decommissioned in 1998 and became a museum ship in 2004.[1]