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BLANCO ENCALADA destroyers (1943-1944/1962)

Cochrane 1963

Blanco Encalada 1980

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Blanco Encalada (ex-Wadleigh) 14   Bath Iron Wks, USA 4/1943 7.8.1943 10/1943 // 26.7.1962 stricken 4.1982
Cochrane (ex-Rooks) 15   Seattle-Tacoma, Seattle, USA 10/1943 6.6.1944 9/1944 // 26.7.1962 stricken 4.1982

 

Displacement standard, t

2325 - 2276

Displacement full, t

2924 - 3005

Length, m

112.5 wl 114.7 oa

Breadth, m

12.1

Draught, m

4.19 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

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

Power, h. p.

60000

Max speed, kts

38

Fuel, t

oil 492

Endurance, nm(kts) 6500 (15)

Armament

4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 3 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 6 DCT, 2 DCR (56)

Electronic equipment

SPS-6, SPS-10, Mk 25, Mk 34 radars, QCJ sonar

Complement

273

   

Project history: Former USN Fletcher class destroyers. Initially three more Fletchers were to have been transferred in 1966, but really four Charles Lawrence class APDs were received.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Cochrane 1979

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