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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