Protefs-class submarine
Class overview | |
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Name: | Protefs class |
Builders: | Chantiers de la Loire shipyard[1] |
Operators: | Hellenic Navy |
Preceded by: | Katsonis class |
Built: | 1928–1929 |
In commission: | 1929–1945[1] |
Completed: | 4[1] |
Retired: | 1 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Submarine |
Displacement: |
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Length: | 68.6 m (225 ft) |
Beam: | 5.73 m (18.8 ft) |
Draft: | 4.18 m (13.7 ft) |
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Range: | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) surfaced @ 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)[1] |
Endurance: | 100 nmi (190 km; 120 mi) submerged @ 5 kn (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph)[1] |
Test depth: | 260 ft (80 m)[1] |
Complement: | 41 |
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The Protefs class (referred to as the Proteus class in some sources) was a group of submarines built for the Hellenic Navy in the late 1920s. The boats were built to a Loire-Simonot design in France and were larger than the preceding Katsonis class built by a different French company.
Four boats were built, all were named after sea gods from Greek mythology.
Ship | Builder | Launched | Fate |
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Glafkos (Y6) Γλαύκος | Chantiers Navales Français Blainville | 1928 | Lost 4 April 1942 |
Nirefs (Y4) Νηρεύς | AC de la Loire | December 1927 | Decommissioned 1945 |
Protefs (Y3) Πρωτεύς | AC de la Loire | 24 October 1927 | sunk 19 December 1940, rammed by Italian torpedo boat Antares of Valona, Albania |
Triton (Y5) Τρίτων) | AC de la Loire | 4 April 1928 | sunk 16 November 1942 by German patrol boat UJ2102 near Euboea |
The three boats which survived the fall of Greece in 1941 served under overall Royal Navy control in the Eastern Mediterranean
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