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Spanish submarine Delfín (S61)
Torrevieja - Museo Flotante, Submarino S-61 (3)
Delfín moored at Torrevieja as a museum ship
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Name: Delfín
Builder: Bazán, Cartagena, Spain
Laid down: 13 August 1968
Launched: 25 March 1972
Commissioned: 3 May 1973
Decommissioned: July 2003
Homeport: Cartagena, Spain
Identification: Pennant number S61
Status: Museum ship
General characteristics [1]
Class & type: Daphné-class submarine
Displacement:
  • 860 tonnes (846 long tons) surfaced
  • 1,038 tonnes (1,022 long tons) submerged
Length: 57.75 m (189 ft 6 in)
Beam: 6.74 m (22 ft 1 in)
Depth: 5.25 m (17 ft 3 in)
Propulsion:
  • 2 × 450 kW (603 hp) SEMT Pielstick-Jeumont-Schneider Type 12 diesel engines
  • 2 × 1,000 hp (746 kW) electric motors
  • 2 shafts
Speed:
  • 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) surfaced
  • 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) snorkeling
  • 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) submerged
  • Range: 10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) surfaced
    Endurance: 30 days
    Test depth: 300 m (980 ft)
    Complement:
    • 6 officers
    • 24 non-commissioned officers
    • 20 sailors
    Sensors and
    processing systems:
  • DRUA 31 radar
  • DUUA 2B sonar
  • DSUV 2 passive sonar
  • DUUX acoustic telemeter
  • Electronic warfare
    & decoys:
    ARUR 10B radar detector
    Armament:
    • 12 × 550 mm (22 in) torpedo tubes (8 bow, 4 stern)
    • 12 × torpedoes or missiles

    Delfín is a Daphné-class submarine, formerly in service with the Spanish Navy, and now a museum ship in Torrevieja, as part of the Museo del Mar y de la Sal.[2][3][4][5]

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