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CUAUHTÉMOC destroyers (1943/1970)

Cuitláhuac 1975

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Cuauhtémoc (ex-Harrison) F1, 1975- E01   Consolidated, Orange, USA 7/1941 7.5.1942 1/1943 // 19.8.1970 deleted 1982
Cuitláhuac (ex-John Rodgers) F2, 1975- E02, 1993- E01   Consolidated, Orange, USA 7/1941 7.5.1942 2/1943 // 19.8.1970 stricken 7.2001

 

Displacement standard, t

2100

Displacement full, t

3050

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

35

Fuel, t

oil 650

Endurance, nm(kts) 5000 (14)

Armament

5 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 5 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 1 x 5 - 533 TT

Electronic equipment

SC, SG-1, Mk 12.22 radars

Complement

197

Project history: Former USN Fletcher class destroyers, stricken by USN in 1968 and transferred to Mexico in 1970 without any ASW capability.

Modernizations: 1980s, Cuitláhuac: - SC, SG-1 radars; + Kelvin Hughes 17/9, Kelvin Hughes 14/9 radars

Naval service: No significant events.

Cuauhtémoc 1972

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