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Dédalo

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Dédalo (ex-Neuenfels)			Swan Hunter, Newcastle, UK	19.4.1901	22.5.1901	10/1901 // 5.1922	stricken 1.1936

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement full, t	9900
Length, m	127.7 pp 128.0 oa
Breadth, m	16.8
Draught, m	7.40
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 3 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	2200
Max speed, kts	10
Fuel, t	coal 950
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(7)
Armament	2 x 1 - 105/32 SK L/35 C/97, 2 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt, 20 - 25 seaplanes (M.18), 1 airship (SCA), 2 balloons
Complement	398

Air group

Year	5.1922	6.1923	9.1929
Reconnaissance	5 Felixtowe F.3, 5 M.18, 4 S.13, 4 S.16, 5 S.16bis, 1 Panther, 2 SCA, 2 balloons	9 M.18, 1 SCA	11 M.18, 2 Swift, 1 S.62

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Aircraft facilities

 (ha - 1,005m² / ~5,000m³): Seaplanes were stored in hangar (60x16.5xm). There was one elevator, seaplanes were handled from water by four (since 1926 one) derricks. Airship was stored in own hangar (42x8.3x12.0m)

Project history

Ex-German freighter Neuenfels interned by Spain in 1914 and later requisitioned. She was converted to dual-purpose aircraft / airship tender. Fore deck with mooring mast was intended for operations with airship and balloons, aft deck was used for handling of seaplanes. Also wheeled planes can be launched from the deck.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In January, 1935 Dédalo was laid up from active service and stricken a year later.