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DÉDALO seaplane tender (1901/1922)


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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, t9900
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


Standard scale images


<i>Dédalo </i>1922
Dédalo 1922


Graphics


<i>Dédalo</i>
Dédalo


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.