The Spanish Navy Agosta class diesel-electric fast-attack submarine Galerna (S 71) has performed its first dive after the immobilization of its fifth main careening. Galerna (S-71) is an Agosta-class submarine of the Spanish Navy, presently in service. She was constructed by Bazán shipyards (now Navantia) at Cartagena, Spain. Galerna was launched on 5 November 1981 and commissioned on 21 January 1983. In her lengthy operational life, the S-71 has participated in lots of nationwide and NATO workouts and operations like ‘Sorbet Royal’, ‘Dogfish’, ‘Linked Seas’, ‘Dragon Hammer’, ‘Noble Mariner’, ‘Minex’ and ‘Tapon’.
The Agosta-class submarines in Spanish service had a projected service lifetime of 30 years. In her lengthy operational life, the S-71 has participated in lots of nationwide and NATO workouts and operations. Nonetheless, as a result of delays within the successor S-80-class program, they’ve undergone quite a few repairs. Galerna was scheduled for one more giant overhaul in the summertime of 2017, the fifth over her profession, to increase her service life till the supply of the subsequent technology of submarines. Galerna started her post-refit sea trials in July 2022. The refit aimed to increase her operational service life by 5 years with a return to operational service envisaged on the finish of August.
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The Agosta-class submarine is a category of diesel-electric fast-attack submarine developed and constructed by the French DCNS in Seventies to succeed the Daphné-class submarines. The submarines have served within the French Navy in addition to exported to the navies of Spain and Pakistan. It additionally utilized by Royal Malaysian Navy for the coaching goal. They have been changed in French service by the Rubis-class nuclear assault submarines however are nonetheless in energetic service with the navies of Spain and Pakistan. The French Navy grouped this mannequin of submarine of their most succesful class as an océanique, that means “ocean-going.
