Churucca 1980
Blas de Lezo 1980
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| Churucca (ex-Eugene A. Greene) | D61 | Federal, Kearny, USA | 8/1944 | 18.3.1945 | 6/1945 // 31.8.1972 | stricken 12.1991 | |
| Gravina (ex-Furse) | D62 | Consolidated, Orange, USA | 9/1944 | 9.3.1945 | 7/1945 // 31.8.1972 | stricken 9.1991 | |
| Méndez Núñez (ex-O'Hare) | D63 | Consolidated, Orange, USA | 1/1945 | 22.6.1945 | 11/1945 // 31.10.1973 | stricken 4.1992 | |
| Lángara (ex-Leary) | D64 | Consolidated, Orange, USA | 8/1944 | 20.1.1945 | 5/1945 // 31.10.1973 | stricken 4.1992 | |
| Blas de Lezo (ex-Noa) | D65 | Bath Iron Wks, USA | 3/1945 | 30.7.1945 | 11/1945 // 31.10.1973 | stricken 9.1991 |
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Displacement standard, t |
2406 |
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Displacement full, t |
3493 |
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Length, m |
116.6 wl 119.0 oa |
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Breadth, m |
12.5 |
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Draught, m |
4.40 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
60000 |
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Max speed, kts |
32 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 650 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
4000 (20) |
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Armament |
1 х 8 ASROC ASuR (17 RUR-5), 2 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 helicopter (Hughes 369) |
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Electronic equipment |
D61, 62: SPS-10, SPS-40, Mk 25 or Mk 28 radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1, ULQ-6 ECM suites D63-65: SPS-10, SPS-37, Mk 25 or Mk 28 radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1, ULQ-6 ECM suites |
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Complement |
274 |
Project history: Former USN Gearing class destroyers, transferred under MDAP and purchased outright on 17 May 1978; all FRAM I modernisations. Bias de Lezo had both gun turrets forward, the others had turrets in 'A' and 'Y' positions.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: No significant events.
Lángara 1975
© Ivan Gogin, 2017