Greek submarine Papanikolis (Y-2)
Service
- as Papanikolis (Y-2 Παπανικολής)21 December 1927 — 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- Papanikolis
- Pennant / hull number
- Y-2
- Namesake
- Dimitrios Papanikolis
- Builder
- Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes
- Laid down
- 1925
- Launched
- 19 November 1926
- Commissioned
- 21 December 1927
- Decommissioned
- 1945
- Fate
- Hull sold for scrap, conning tower preserved in the Maritime Museum, Piraeus
- Status
- Preserved
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 576 long tons (585 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 775 long tons (787 t)
- Length
- 62.5 m (205.1 ft)
- Beam
- 5.3 m (17.4 ft)
- Draught
- 3.6 m (11.8 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Complement
- 30
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Papanikolis was a Katsonis-class submarine of the Hellenic Navy. She carried the pennant number Y-2. The ship was named after Dimitrios Papanikolis. Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes laid her keel in 1925. Launched on 19 November 1926, she entered service on 21 December 1927.
She was one of two ships of her class. The class followed the Delfin class and was succeeded by the Protefs class.
The boat displaced 576 long tons surfaced and 775 long tons submerged. She measured 62.5 m (205 ft) long with a beam of 5.3 m (17 ft). Her designed speed was 14 knots, and she carried a complement of 30.
Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1945.
She has been preserved.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 1 × 1300 hp diesel engine
- 1 × 1000 hp electric motor
- Armament
- 2 × 21 in internal bow torpedo tubes
- 2 × 21 in external bow torpedo tubes
- 2 × 21 in external stern torpedo tubes
- 1 × 100 mm gun
- 2 × machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Greek submarine Papanikolis (Y-2) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Coote, R G G (Lt) — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//471/media-471854/large.jpg This photograph A 13738 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons