Romanian Navy — Submarine
NMS Delfinul
Service
- as NMS Delfinul1936 — 19441,945 days of the war
- as TS-31944 — 1945610 days of the war
NMS Delfinul
Particulars
- Name
- NMS Delfinul
- Namesake
- dolphin
- Builder
- Italian naval base and shipyard, Fiume
- Laid down
- 1927
- Launched
- 1930
- Commissioned
- 1936
- Decommissioned
- 1945
- Fate
- Returned to Romania in 1951 (1951)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Length
- 68 m (223.1 ft)
- Beam
- 5.9 m (19.4 ft)
- Draught
- 3.6 m (11.8 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Range
- 2,000 nmi (3,704 km)
- Complement
- 55
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
NMS Delfinul was a submarine in service with the Romanian Navy. She was named for dolphin. Her keel was laid at Italian naval base and shipyard, Fiume in 1927. Launched in 1930, she entered service in 1936.
She measured 68 m (223 ft) long with a beam of 5.9 m (19 ft). Her designed speed was 14 knots, and she carried a complement of 55.
Her main battery was one 102 mm (4.0 in) guns.
She served with the Romanian Navy as NMS Delfinul until 1944. She then passed to the Soviet Navy, serving as TS-3 from 1944. She was in commission for 2,555 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1945.
She was transferred in 1951.
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 Sulzer diesel engines, 2 electric motors, 2 shafts
- Armament
- 1 × 102 mm Bofors naval gun
- 1 x 13 mm twin machine gun
- 8 x 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 bow and 4 stern)
Sources
- Facts harvested from NMS Delfinul on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Nicolae Ursu — http://www.worldwar2.ro/foto/?id=323§ion=5&article=108 (versiunea precedentă pusă la dispoziție de Nicolae Ursu) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons