Hangor (S 131)

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Hangor
identical Ghazi
identical Ghazi
Ship data
flag PakistanPakistan (naval war flag) Pakistan
Ship type Submarine
class Daphné class
Launch June 28, 1968
Commissioning 1970
Whereabouts 2006 decommissioned, museum ship
Ship dimensions and crew
length
57.8 m ( Lüa )
width 6.8 m
Draft Max. 4.6 m
displacement 869  ts
 
crew 54 men
Machine system
machine Diesel engines : 1940 kW , electric motors : 1940 kW
propeller 1
Mission data submarine
Top
speed
submerged
10.5 kn (19 km / h)
Top
speed
surfaced
13.5 kn (25 km / h)
Armament

Torpedoes : 12 × 550 mm torpedo tubes (8 in the bow, 4 in the stern)

The Hangor (S 131) was a Pakistani submarine of the Daphné class . The commissioning took place in 1970, the decommissioning in 2006. During the Bangladesh war, the hangor torpedoed the Indian frigate Khukri on December 9, 1971 .

Details

The Daphné class was a French class of conventionally powered submarines . In addition to Pakistan and France , Portugal , Spain and South Africa also use this type.

The class was developed from 1952 as a supplement to the larger submarines of the Narval . The two-hulled boats are an enlarged further development of the Aréthuse class . You don't have a torpedo room. All twelve torpedo tubes are located outside the pressure hull and cannot be reloaded at sea.

Between 1964 and 1970, eleven boats were put into service by the French Navy . The first foreign buyer of the Daphné class was Portugal , which put four submarines into service between 1967 and 1969. The next foreign navy to buy the submarines was the Pakistani navy . Pakistan put three boats of the class into service in 1970. The Hangor was the first submarine after the end of World War II that sank an enemy ship in a combat mission. During the Bangladesh War, the Hangor torpedoed the Indian frigate Khukri on December 9, 1971 . Another Indian warship was damaged. To date there has only been one successful submarine mission against an opposing ship. In the Falklands War of 1982, the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano was sunk by the British nuclear submarine Conqueror .

In 1975, Pakistan bought a used Daphné- class submarine from Portugal. In 2006, all four Pakistani class submarines were decommissioned. The hangor , which was successful in the war against India, is on public display as a museum ship .

More Pakistani Daphné- class submarines

  • Shushuk (S 132)
    • Commissioning: 1970
    • Out of service: 2006
  • Mangro (S 133)
    • Commissioning: 1970
    • Out of service: 2006
  • Ghazi (S 134)
    • bought by Portugal: 1975
    • Out of service: 2006

literature

  • Chris Chant: Modern submarines technology-tactics-armament , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2005, ISBN 3-7276-7150-5
  • Werner Globke (ed.): Weyers Flottentaschenbuch / Warships of the World - Fleet Handbook , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn, 66th year 2005-2007, ISBN 3-7637-4517-3

Footnotes

  1. The French metric 550 mm standard can be converted to the internationally widespread 533 mm standard (21 inches ) with plug-in adapters.