Vasco da Gama 2000
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Vasco da Gama | F330 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany | 1.2.1989 | 26.6.1989 | 18.1.1991 | in service (2019) | |
| Álvares Cabral | F331 | Howaldtswerke, Kiel, Germany | 2.6.1989 | 6.6.1990 | 24.5.1991 | in service (2019) | |
| Corte-Real | F332 | Howaldtswerke, Kiel, Germany | 20.10.1989 | 6.6.1990 | 22.11.1991 | in service (2019) |
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Displacement standard, t |
2900 |
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Displacement full, t |
3330 |
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Length, m |
109.6 pp 115.9 oa |
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Breadth, m |
13.8 wl 14.8 oa |
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Draught, m |
4.10 hull 6.10 sonar |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
CODOG: 2 General Electric LM-2500-30 gas turbines / 2 MTU 12V1163 TB83 diesels |
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Power, h. p. |
53610 / 8840 |
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Max speed, kts |
32 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel / gas turbine oil 300 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
4900(18) |
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Armament |
2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84C), 1 x 8 Sea Sparrow SAM (8 RIM-7M), 1 x 1 - 100/55 Mle 68, 1 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (Mk 46 Mod.5), 1 helicopter (Super Lynx Mk 95) |
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Electronic equipment |
type 1007, DA-08, MW-08 Mod.3, 2x STIR 1.8, Mk 90 radars, SQS-510(v) sonar, APECS II, AR-700 ECM suites, 2x SRBOC Mk 36 decoy RL, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy, SEWACO, STACOS CCS |
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Complement |
184 |
Project history: On 25 July 1986 three MEKO 200P type frigates were ordered from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg and Howaldtswerke, Kiel. These were the ships finally chosen by the Portuguese Navy, after considering the Netherlands Kortenaer type and a Spanish proposal. The programme was 60% funded by a NATO consortium comprising the USA, Canada, West Germany, Norway and the Netherlands. Similar ships were built for Greece and Turkey. These ships give the Portuguese Navy its first seaborne aviation capability.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: No significant events.
Álvares Cabral 2009
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