Chilean submarine O'Higgins
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
O'Higgins (SS-23) is a Scorpène-class submarine built for the Chilean Navy by DCNS in Cherbourg, France and Navantia in Cartagena, Spain.
.jpg) O'Higgins | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 Chile | |
| Name | O'Higgins |
| Namesake | Bernardo O'Higgins |
| Ordered | 1997[1] |
| Builder | DCNS Cherbourg & Navantia, Cartagena |
| Launched | November 2003[1] |
| Commissioned | September 2005[1] |
| Home port | Talcahuano |
| Status | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Scorpène-class submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 66.4 m (217 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in) |
| Draft | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
| Installed power | Diesel 3,005 kW (4,030 hp) Electric 3,810 kW (5,110 hp) |
| Propulsion | Mechanical: 4 diesel engines
Electric: 1 main electric motor 1 propeller |
| Speed |
|
| Range | 12,000 km (7,500 mi) at 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement | 31 |
| Sensors & processing systems |
|
| Armament | 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes for 18 Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei Black Shark heavyweight torpedoes and 4 SM-39 Exocet anti-ship missiles and 30 mines in place of torpedoes |
O'Higgins is the first of two units, ahead of Carrera, built to replace the old Oberon-class submarines that served in the Chilean Navy for 30 years. It is currently serving in the Submarine Force with a base port in Talcahuano.