Name Abtao Acquired 1 March 1954 Status Museum ship since 2004 | Namesake Battle of Abtao Decommissioned 1998 Length 74 m | |
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Renamed from Tiburón to Abtao, April 1957 Builder General Dynamics Electric Boat | ||
BAP Abtao (SS-42) was a Abtao-class submarine of the Peruvian Navy.
The submarine was built by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut and delivered on 1 March 1954. She initially served as Tiburón ("Shark"), but was renamed Abtao in April 1957. Originally assigned pennant number 5, in 1959 she was designated SS-2, then renumbered SS-42 in 1960.
The submarine was decommissioned in 1998 and became a museum ship in 2004.
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