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Class overview | |
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Name | Capitan O'Brien class |
Builders | Vickers |
Operators | Chilean Navy |
Built | 1928–1929 |
In commission | 1929–1958 |
Completed | 3 |
Retired | 3 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 260 ft (79 m) pp |
Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Complement | 54 |
Armament |
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The Capitan O'Brien class were three submarines built for the Chilean Navy in the late 1920s. Designed and built in the United Kingdom, they were a modified design of the contemporary British Odin-class submarines. The lead boat, Capitan O'Brien, was launched on 2 October 1928 and the other two on 15 January 1929. All three submarines entered service in 1929. The three vessels remained in service until being discarded in 1957–1958.