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SPANISH NAVY (SPAIN)

COASTAL FORCES

DAR11 motor ASW boats

Names

DAR1, 2

DAR11

DAR21, 22

DAR31, 32

DAR41, 42

etc

, 1939-

LAS11-18

LAS21-26

Builders

USA, France: DAR1, 2, 11, 21, 22, 31, 32, 41, 42 etc

Completed

1937-1938: DAR1, 2, 11, 21, 22, 31, 32, 41, 42 etc

Losses

DAR1 (18.8.1938), LAS21 (1942)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1941: LAS22

1945-1947: LAS11-18, 21, 23-26

Displacement standard, t

16 - 20

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

13.0

Breadth, m

2.90

Draught, m

0.80

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 petrol engine

Power, h. p.

800

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

petrol 1.2

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

(1 - 2) x 1 - 7.7/87, DCR

Complement

7

Project history: Small wooden-hulled launches, differed mainly with type of installed petrol engines. Presumably, they were bought by Republican fleet at private boatbuididers of the USA and France in 1937-1938 and were armed in Spain. They received index DAR with two digits (the first digit designated a boat serial number, second the flotilla number).
After 1939 survived DAR boats were commissioned by Nationalists and received new indexes LAS.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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