Almirante Guise 1942
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Almirante Guise (ex-Lennuk, ex-Автроил [Avtroil]) | Bekker, Revel, Russia | 11.1913 | 13.1.1915 | 8.1917 // 7.1933 | stricken 5.1949 |
Displacement normal, t |
1350 |
Displacement full, t |
2200 |
Length, m |
107.0 |
Breadth, m |
9.50 |
Draught, m |
4.10 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 Brown-Boveri steam turbines, 5 Normand boilers |
Power, h. p. |
32700 |
Max speed, kts |
35 |
Fuel, t |
oil 350 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 1568(16) |
Armament |
5 x 1 - 102/60 (ru), 1 x 1 - 76/28 Lender obr. 1914-15, 3 x 3 - 450 TT, 80 mines |
Complement |
142 |
Project history: Former Russian Novik class destroyers. Almirante Villar was laid down as Kapitan Kingsbergen, 10.7.1915 renamed Kapitan 1 ranga Miklukho-Maklay, since 18.12.1918 Spartak; Almirante Guise was laid down as Avtroil. 27.12.1918 both destroyers were captured by British ships off Tallinn; 4.1.1919 they were commissioned by Navy of Estonia as Wambola and Lennuk; in April, 1933 they were sold to Peru on 410.000$ each and transferred to the Peruvian crews in Britain 8.7.1933. They arrived to Iquitos only in January, 1934 when the conflict with Colombia was already resolved by armistice signing, and as result passed to Callao, arriving there 5.7.1934.
Modernizations: 1941: + 3 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1939
Naval service: Almirante Guise was decommissioned in November, 1947. Her fragments are till now in scuttled condition off San Lorenzo naval base.
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