Brazilian submarine Humaytá
Modified Balilla-class submarine
Service
- as Humaytá20 July 1929 — 25 November 19502,193 days of the war
- Name
- Humaytá
- Namesake
- Passage of Humaitá
- Laid down
- 19 November 1925
- Launched
- 11 June 1927
- Commissioned
- 20 July 1929
- Decommissioned
- 25 November 1950
- Fate
- Scrapped
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,450 long tons (1,473 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,884 long tons (1,914 t)
- Length
- 86.7 m (284.4 ft)
- Beam
- 7.77 m (25.5 ft)
- Draught
- 4.26 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 18.5 knots (34.3 km/h, 21.3 mph)
- Range
- 12,840 nmi (23,780 km)
- Complement
- 61
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
Humaytá was a Modified Balilla-class submarine, operated by the Brazilian Navy. She was named for Passage of Humaitá. Her keel was laid on 19 November 1925. She entered service on 20 July 1929, having been launched on 11 June 1927.
The boat displaced 1,450 long tons surfaced and 1,884 long tons submerged. She measured 86.7 m (284 ft) long with a beam of 7.8 m (25 ft). Her designed speed was 18.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 61.
Her main battery was one 120 mm (4.7 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 25 November 1950.
She was broken up for scrap.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × Ansaldo diesel engines, 4000 shp surfaced
- Electric motors, 1000 shp submerged
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 1 × 120 mm/41 Ansaldo deck gun
- 2 × 13.2 mm/76 machine guns
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern)
- 12 × torpedoes
- 16 × mines
Sources
- Facts harvested from Brazilian submarine Humaytá on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Marinha do Brasil — 040286 Humaitá – Submarino Humaitá — CC BY-SA 2.0 — Wikimedia Commons