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CALDAS destroyers (1944/1972-1973)

Santander 1980

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Caldas (ex-Willard Keith) D02 9024 Bethlehem, San Pedro, USA 3/1944 29.8.1944 12/1944 // 1.7.1972 discarded 1977
Santander (ex-Waldron) D03 384 Federal, Kearny, USA 11/1943 26.3.1944 6/1944 // 30.10.1973 discarded 1986

 

Displacement standard, t

2345

Displacement full, t

3210

Length, m

112.5 wl 114.8 oa

Breadth, m

12.5

Draught, m

4.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery

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

Power, h. p.

60000

Max speed, kts

33.4

Fuel, t

oil 497

Endurance, nm(kts)

3300 (20)

Armament

D02: 3 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 12, 2 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 x 24 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL

D03: 3 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 x 24 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 1 helicopter (BO-105)

Electronic equipment

D02: SPS-6, SPS-10, Mk 25, Mk 34 radars, QHB sonar, WLR-1, ULQ-6 ECM suites

D03: SPS-10, SPS-40, Mk 25 radars, SQS-30 sonar, WLR-1, ULQ-6 ECM suites

Complement

274

Project history: Former USN Allen M. Sumner class destroyers. Santander was modernized under FRAM II programme under the USN flag.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Caldas 1974

Santander 1975

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