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BRAZILIAN NAVY (BRAZIL)

TORPEDO SHIPS

GREENHALGH destroyers (1943)

Greenhalgh 1943

Mariz e Barros 1968

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Mariz e Barros M1, later D26   Arsenal de Marinha, Ilha das Cobras, Rio de Janeiro 5/1937 28.12.1940 11/1943 stricken 8.1972
Marcílio Dias M2, later D25   Arsenal de Marinha, Ilha das Cobras, Rio de Janeiro 5/1937 20.7.1940 11/1943 stricken 1966
Greenhalgh M3, later D24   Arsenal de Marinha, Ilha das Cobras, Rio de Janeiro 5/1937 8.7.1941 11/1943 stricken 1966

 

Displacement standard, t

1500

Displacement full, t

2200

Length, m

103.9 pp 108.8 oa

Breadth, m

10.6

Draught, m

3.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers

Power, h. p.

42800

Max speed, kts

36.5

Fuel, t

oil 550

Endurance, nm(kts) 6000(15)

Armament

4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 2 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 1 x 4 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR

Electronic equipment QCR-1 sonar

Complement

190

Project history: First Brazilian-built destroyers, known as Greenhalgh or M class. Drawings were developed by means of American experts (on the basis of American destroyer Mahan), considerable part of equipment therefrom was delivered: General Electric turbines, Babcock and Wilcox boilers, Bethlehem guns; fire control system and sonar. Despite it, building went slowly, and ships were commissioned only 6 years after laying. Original design provided 5 single 127mm/38 Mk12 guns, 4 single Oerlikons and 3 quadruple 533mm TTs, but during completion one 127mm gun and two TT mounts have refused in favour of strengthening of antiaircraft and anti-submarine armaments. One main gun placed in completely covered turret mount, remaining guns stood openly.

Modernizations: late 1940s, presumably all: + SPS-4, SPS-6C, Mk 28 radars

1966, Mariz e Barros: - 2 x 1 - 127/38, 4 x 1 - 20/70; + 1 x 4 Sea Cat GWS20 SAM (8 Sea Cat), 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL

Naval service: No significant events.

Greenhalgh 1952

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