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GONÇALO VELHO sloops (1933)

Gonçalo Velho 1933

Gonçalves Zarco 1965

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Gonçalo Velho 1956- F475   Hawthorn Leslie, Tyne, UK 10.1931 3.8.1932 5.1933 BU 6.1961
Gonçalves Zarco 1956- F476   Hawthorn Leslie, Tyne, UK 10.1931 28.11.1932 9.1933 discarded 1969
  

Displacement standard, t

950

Displacement full, t

1414

Length, m

76.2 pp 81.7 oa

Breadth, m

10.8

Draught, m

3.43

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, t

oil 470

Endurance, nm(kts) 6000(10)

Armament

3 x 1 - 120/50 Vickers-Armstrong Mk G, 4 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 2 DCR

Complement

142

Project history: Small, but well armed colonial sloops. They were ordered in 1931 in Britain to Hawthorn Leslie. Project was developed on basis of British sloop Bridgewater from her Portuguese ship differed by increased hull beam, third 120mm gun and increased fuel stowage, but had no minesweeping equipment. Officially they were rated as 2nd class avisos.

Modernizations: 1943, both: - 4 x 1 - 40/39; + 5 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 4 DCT, presumably sonar

1948, both: presumably + radar

Naval service: No significant events.

Gonçalves Zarco 1950

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