Spanish submarine Tramontana

Tramontana (S-74) was an Agosta-class submarine built for the Spanish Navy by Bazán at Cartagena, Spain. She served from 1985 to February 2024, when she was decommissioned.

Tramontana in the port of Malaga in 2005.
History
Spain
Name	Tramontana
Builder	Bazán, Cartagena, Spain
Launched	30 November 1984
Commissioned	1985
Decommissioned	16 February 2024
Identification	S74
Status	Decommissioned
General characteristics
Class and type	Agosta-class submarine
Displacement	1,500 long tons (1,524 t) surfaced 1,760 long tons (1,788 t) submerged
Length	67 m (219 ft 10 in)
Beam	6 m (19 ft 8 in)
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) surfaced 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph) submerged 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) submerged (snort)
Test depth	300 m (984 ft 3 in)
Complement	5 officers 36 men
Sensors and processing systems	Thomson CSF DRUA 33 Radar Thomson Sintra DSUV 22 DUUA 2D Sonar DUUA 1D Sonar DUUX 2 Sonar DSUV 62A towed array
Armament	SM 39 Exocet 4 × 550 millimetres (22 in) bow torpedo tubes ECAN L5 Mod 3 & ECAN Fl7 Mod 2 nuclear torpedoes

History

Tramontana moored at the Naval Station Rota, in the background the already retired aircraft carrier Príncipe de Asturias.

Tramontana in Málaga in 2022.

The submarine was launched in 1984 and commissioned in 1985.

It was involved in a collision during naval exercises near Cartagena,^[1] in 2001 as well as the Perejil Island crisis in 2002.

It was deployed as part of the Spanish contribution to the multi-national task force enforcing the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 "to take all necessary measures to protect civilians under threat of attack" in Libya on March 22, 2011.^[2]

Between 19 and 23 March 2012, the submarine participated in the INSTREX-12 exercise, along with 11 other ships and the Portuguese Tridente-class submarine, Arpao.^[3]

On 24 May 2013, Pedro Argüelles, Secretary of State for Defence, declared at the Congress of Deputies that shipbuilding company Navantia would review the technical delays of the S-80 Submarine, which had previously been discarded.^[4]

The Armada decommissioned the Tramontana in a ceremony on February 16, 2024.^[5][6][7]

Media

Part of the movie Navy SEALS was filmed aboard the submarine in November 1989.^[8]

See also

• List of submarines of the Spanish Navy

Notes

1. "ACCIDENTES DEL "S-74" "TRAMONTANA" SUBMARINO ESPAÑOL". Archived from the original on 2009-09-08. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
2. "Spanish Fighter Jets Complete First Patrol Over Libya". Bloomberg. 22 March 2011. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
3. Ministro da Defesa acompanha exercício da Marinha
4. Navantia contará con una auditoría estadounidense para evaluar los problemas técnicos del S-80
5. La Armada da de baja el submarino Tramontana Infodefensa (17/02/2024)
6. Cartagena se despide del submarino Tramontana, que se jubila tras 40 años de servicio Murcia Plaza (16/02/2024)
7. El submarino S-74 “Tramontana” causa baja en la Armada Puente de Mando (16/02/2024)
8. "How is the S-80 Plus, the super submarine with which Spain shows military and industrial strength". PledgeTimes. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.

References

• Chant, Christopher (1987). A Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 158–59. ISBN 0-7102-0720-4. OCLC 14965544.