PNS Hamza (S139)


Career (Pakistan)

Name:	PNS Hamza (S139)
Owner:	Pakistan Navy (Submarine Service Branch)
Builder:	Pakistan Navy dockyard, Karachi
Commissioned:	26 September 2008 ^[1]
General characteristics

PPNS Hamza (S139) named after Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib is Khalid class submarine of Pakistan Navy. Hamza is third of the Khalid class submarine built in Pakistan at Pakistan Navy dockyard, Karachi under a transfer of technology contract signed on 21 September 1994 with DCNS France.^[1]

See also

Pakistan Navy
List of ships of Pakistan Navy

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Pakistan Navy Agosta 90B Submarine Fleet". Pakistan Navy Submarine Fleet. Pakistan Navy. Retrieved 31 December 2011.

Agosta-class submarine

Agosta
Bévéziers
La Praya
Ouessant

Royal Malaysian Navy

Ouessant^†

Hashmat class	Hashmat (ex-Astrant) Hurmat (ex-Adventurous)

Khalid class^‡	Khalid Saad Hamza

South African Navy

Adventurous*
Astrant*
(*neither delivered)

Galerna
Mistral
Siroco
Tramontana

^† – Used for training of Royal Malaysian Navy submariners
^‡ – the Khalid class was built to the revised Agosta 90B design

Preceded by: Daphné class
Followed by: Redoutable class