D-23 Almirante Valdés

Country:  Spain

Class, [Type]: Fletcher, [DD].

Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, U.S.A.

Launch date: 30 August 1942.

Commission date: 01 July 1959.

Decommission date: 17 November 1986.

 Draw by Antoni Casinos

Displacement ( tons ): 2.080 standard, 2.750 normal, 3.050 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 114,8 x 12,6 x 5,5

Main machinery: 2 x Westinghouse turbines ( 60.000 hp ), 4 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers.

Speed ( knots ): 35.

Range ( miles ): 5.000 at 15 knots.

Complement: 290 ( 17 officers ).

Guns: 4 x 127mm/38 Mk30, 6 x 76mm/50 Mk33 ( three double mountings ).

Torpedoes: 3 x 533mm; 2 x Mk11 Hedgehogs; 1 x depth charge rack.

Radar: Search: SPS 6C; Tactical: SPS 10; Fire Control: Radar controlled Mk37 directors. Mk56 director with Mk35 radar. Mk63 director with SPG34 radar for 76mm. Guns.

Sonar: hull mounted, SQS 29 or SQS 32. Originally had QHB-b.

Countermeasures: ESM: AN/WLR 1.

Comment: Ex - USS Converse ( DD 509 ). Commissioned for the US Navy on 20 November 1942. Transferred at Philadelphia to the Spanish Navy on 1 July 1959. Purchased by the spanish government on 1 October 1972.