D-43 Marqués de la Ensenada

Country:  Spain

Class, [Type]: Oquendo Modificado, [DD].

Builder: Bazán, Ferrol / Cartagena, Spain.

Launch date: 15 July 1959.

Commission date: 10 September 1970.

Decommission date: 20 October 1988.

 Draw by Antoni Casinos

Displacement ( tons ): 3.012 standard, 3.785 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 119,3 x 13 x 5,6

Main machinery: 2 x Rateau-Bretagne turbines ( 60.000 hp ), 3 x boilers.

Speed ( knots ): 28.

Range ( miles ): 4.500 at 15 knots.

Complement: 318 ( 20 officers ).

Guns: 6 x 127mm/38 ( 3 x double mountings ).

Torpedoes: 2 x 533mm. Mk25 fixed tubes. Mk37 torpedoes. 2 x Mk32 triple tubes for Mk44 A/S torpedoes.

Radar: Search: SPS 40; Tactical: SPS 10; Navigation: Decca RM 426; Fire Control: 1 x Mk37 director with Mk25 radar. 1 x Mk56 director with Mk35 radar.

Sonar: SQS 29, hull mounted; 1 x VDS SQA 10.

Countermeasures: ESM: AN/WLR 1.

Helicopter: 1 x Hughes 500 ASW.

Comment: Ordered in 1948. Originally of the same design as Oquendo. Towed to Cartagena for reconstruction to a new design. The ship was re-launched on 2nd March 1968, after being lengthened and widened. Weapons and electronics identical to Gearing FRAM II. In autumn 1981 she was damaged in the boiler-room by a bomb attack by ETA. Repairs costed about 10 million pesetas.

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