BAP Islay (SS-35)

History
Class and type:	Type 209/1100
Ordered:	24 June 1970
Builder:	Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG
Laid down:	15 March 1971
Launched:	11 October 1973
Commissioned:	29 August 1974
Homeport:	Callao
Motto:	Honor y coraje
General characteristics
Displacement:	1,180 t surfaced 1,285 t submerged
Length:	55.9 m
Beam:	6.4 m
Draft:	5.9 m
Propulsion:	4 MTU Type 12V493 AZ80 GA31L diesel engines 1 Siemens electric motor 1 shaft 4,600 hp (3,400 kW)
Speed:	11 knots surfaced 21 knots (39 km/h) submerged
Range:	11,300 nm surfaced at 4 knots (7.4 km/h)
Endurance:	40 days on patrol
Complement:	7 officers, 29 enlisted
Armament:	8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 14 SST-4 torpedoes

BAP Islay (SS-35) is one of two Type 209/1100 submarines ordered by the Peruvian Navy on 24 June 1970. She was built by the German shipbuilder Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG at its shipyard in Kiel. She is named after the Battle of Islay which took place between naval forces of Peru and Chile on 12 January 1838. Following sea trials in the North Sea, she arrived to its homeport of Callao in 1974. After almost a decade in service she was overhauled in Kiel in 1983 for further use.

Sources

• Baker III, Arthur D., The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World 2002-2003. Naval Institute Press, 2002.
• Ortiz Sotelo, Jorge, Apuntes para la historia de los submarinos peruanos. Biblioteca Nacional, 2001.