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CARVALHO ARAUJO sloop (1915/1920)

Carvalho Araujo 1920

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Carvalho Araujo (ex-Jonquil)     Connell, Scotstoun, UK 1915 12.5.1915 6.1915 // 5.1920 survey vessel 1937

 

Displacement normal, t

1200

Displacement full, t

1275

Length, m

76.2 pp 80.0 oa

Breadth, m

10.1

Draught, m

3.40

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

1800

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, t

coal 375

Endurance, nm(kts)

5000(15)

Armament

2 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 2 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II, 4 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 DCT

Complement

137

Project history: Former British Flower class sloop built in days of WWI, bought by Portugal in 1920 and rearmed. Rated as 2nd class aviso.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Charvalho Araujo in 1937 was converted to survey vessel and served till 1959.

Carvalho Araujo 1933

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