South African Submarine Museum SAS Assegaai, formerly the SAS Johanna van der Merwe, was one of three Daphne-class submarines acquired from France during 1970 to 1972, which became the first submarines to serve in the South African Navy. She is 58m long and had a complement of six officers and 45 senior and junior ratings. Fitted with 12 x 550mm torpedo tubes, she could also carry sea mines. She was renamed SAS Assegaai (Assegaai is the Afrikaans word for spear) in 1999 and was the last of the SA Navy’s Daphne class submarines in commission and finally decommissioned in 2003. Currently she is preserved as a floating museum but will be preserved ashore at the Naval Museum by 2013. Read more: navy.mil.za/museum_submarine/
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 05:30:01 +0000
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