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Greek Katsonis Class submarines



The Katsonis class was a French-built class of two submarines for the Hellenic Navy, serving from 1927–28 until the Second World War. The ships of the class were the first new submarines acquired by Greece after the First World War.
In general, they were similar to the French Navy's Circé-class submarines, of Schneider-Laubeuf design, but the conning tower was larger in order to accommodate the rotating platform of the 100 mm gun


Name - Pennant number - Launched - Commissioned - Fate
Katsonis - (Y-1) - 20 Mar 1926 - 8 Jun 1928 - Sunk by a German submarine chaser UJ-2101 (ex Greek mine sweeper Strymon) on 14 September 1943.
Papanikolis -(Y-2) - 19 Nov 1926 - 21 Dec 1927 - Decommissioned in 1945 and later scrapped. Its conning tower has been preserved, and is exhibited at the Hellenic Maritime Museum.

General characteristics
Displacement: surfaced: 576 MT/submerged: 775 MT
Length: 62.5 m
Beam: 5.3 m
Draft: 3.6 m
Propulsion: one two-shaft Schneider-Carels diesel engine 1,300 bhp &
two electric engine motors: 1000 shp
Speed: surfaced: 14 kts / submerged: 9.5 kts
Range: 3,500 NM surfaced at 10 kts
Endurance: 100 NM submerged at 5 kn
Test depth: 80 m
Complement: 30 men
Armament:
2 × 21-inch internal bow T/T,
2 × 21-inch external bow T/T,
2 × 21-inch external stern T/T;
1 × 100 mm gun, 1x 13,2 MG & 2 7.92 MGs

MERRY XMAS TO EVERYBODY

Excellent work! And a great Xmas gift.

@Navarchos

Yours external torpedoes-tubes must be more "visible", more "pronounced" on the outer hull

@Colombamike, your corrections are always welcome and help me get better.
I hope this one covers the matter...



Sometimes the bright sun of Meditteranean shadows more than needed some photos hahaha

@Navarchos
I still don't agree with your external torpedoes-tubes view's
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Then feel free and correct it as u like... And posted back
By my point of vie looks ok

So here we are with the final version ...thanks @Mihoshik for the help!




Find below a rare video of the Y1 Katsonis at Alexandria port.
The crew on a daily maintenance routine, at the end Commander V. Laskos who go down with her at the fatal day of 14th Sep 1943.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClPmscyHZbQ

That's a tough shape to draw -- I think your latest version shows it well. The curvature of the plating around them doesn't allow you to use dark grey lines to accentuate it, but with shading alone it's hard to understand. Nice work.

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