Chilean submarine Antofagasta
CC-1 and CC-2
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 Chile
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| Name: | Antofagasta |
| Builder: | Seattle Construction and Drydock Company, Seattle |
| Launched: | 31 December 1913 |
| Fate: | Not accepted, sold to Canada by builder |
 Canada
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| Name: | CC-2 |
| Acquired: | 4 August 1914 |
| Commissioned: | 6 August 1914 |
| Decommissioned: | 1920 |
| Fate: | Broken up 1925 |
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| Class and type: | CC-class submarine |
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| Length: | 157.5 ft (48.0 m) |
| Beam: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | MAN 6-cylinder diesel engines |
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| Test depth: | 200 ft (61 m) |
| Complement: | 18 |
| Armament: | 3 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes |
HMCS CC-2 was a CC-class submarine used by the Royal Canadian Navy. The ship was launched in 1913 in Seattle, Washington as the submarine Antofagasta for Chile. This deal fell through and the boat, along with HMCS CC-1, was offered to British Columbia's premier Sir Richard McBride, just nine days before the United Kingdom's declaration of war in 1914. On 4 August 1914, the day war was declared, the boat departed at night (to maintain secrecy from the Chilean, German, and U.S. governments) for handover to British Columbia authorities near Victoria, British Columbia. The Dominion Government of Canada later ratified the sale although there was a Parliamentary investigation of the cost of both boats, over twice the annual budget for the entire Royal Canadian Navy in 1913–14. CC-2 served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1914 to 1920, when the submarine was discarded and broken up in 1925.
The two submarines of the CC class were not identical, with the Electric Boat Company employed two separate designs with the same internal machinery for the submarines. CC-1 was built to the design 19E and CC-2 was built to design 19B. CC-2 was armed with three torpedo tubes of the same size, two forward and one astern. This gave CC-2 a tapered bow. Both submarines used Whitehead Mk IV 18-inch (460 mm) torpedoes that had a range of 1,000 yd (910 m) at 25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph). The only source for these torpedoes in Canada was HMCS Niobe's stock and it took some time before they were shipped to the submarines.
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