Almirante Villar 1934
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Almirante Villar (ex-Wambola, ex-Спартак [Spartak], ex-Капитан 1 ранга Миклухо-Маклай [Kapitan 1 ranga Miklukho-Maklay]) | Putilov, St. Petersburg, Russia | 11.1914 | 27.8.1915 | 12.1917 // 7.1933 | training hulk 1952 |
Displacement normal, t |
1260 |
Displacement full, t |
1620 |
Length, m |
98.0 |
Breadth, m |
9.34 |
Draught, m |
3.90 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 Brown-Boveri steam turbines, 4 Vulkan boilers |
Power, h. p. |
31500 |
Max speed, kts |
34 |
Fuel, t |
oil 350 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 1800(16) |
Armament |
4 x 1 - 102/60 (ru), 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, 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 Villar during revolution in October, 1948 received serious damages of underwater hull part and steam coolers, then she was in 1952 transferred to naval school as training hulk.
Almirante Villar 1935
Almirante Villar 1951
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