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COLOMBIAN NAVY (COLOMBIA)

 

OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

 

RÍOHACHA river gunboats (1956)

 

Arauca 1960

 

Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Ríohacha

CF35, 1995- PF135

 

Union Industrial de Barranquilla

 

1955

9/1956

stricken 2017-18

Leticia

CF36, 1995- PF136

 

Union Industrial de Barranquilla

 

1955

9/1956

hospital ship ~1970

Arauca

CF37, 1995- PF137

 

Union Industrial de Barranquilla

 

1955

9/1956

in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

170

Displacement full, t

184

Length, m

47.25 pp 49.8 oa

Breadth, m

8.23

Draught, m

1.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Caterpillar diesels

Power, h. p.

916

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

1000(12)

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 26, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10

Complement

43

Project history: Small river gunboats for Río Putumayo. Don't have the radar.

Modernizations: 2010s, Arauca: - 2 x 1 - 76/50; + 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, radar

Naval service: Leticia, serving as hospital ship and disarmed, kept the hull number of gunboat.

Río Hacha 1966

Arauca 1991

 

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