PH-01 Dédalo

Country:  Spain

Class, [Type]: Independence, [CVL].

Builder: New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Launch date: 04 April 1943.

Commission date: 30 August 1967.

Decommission date: 05 August 1989.

Displacement ( tons ): 16.185 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 189,9 x 33,2 x 8,5

Main machinery: 4 x General Electric turbines, 4 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers ( 100.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 31 max., 22 sustained, 11 economy.

Range ( miles ): 10.000 at 11/12 knots, 7.200 at 15 knots.

Guns: 26 x Bofors 40mm/56 Mk2 (two quad mountings) y Mk1 (nine double mountings).

Military lift: 2.460 tm fuel-oil, 462.745 litres JP-5.

Radar: Air search: Westinghouse AN/SPS-6; Surface search: Lockheed AN/SPS-40; General Electric AN/SPS-8A; Navigation: Sylvania AN/SPS-10; Fire Control: 2 x Mk63 paired with Mk28 radars (for quad mounts) and 2 x Mk57 with Mk29 radars (double mounts); TACAN.

Countermeasures: ECM: 2 x WRL-1.

Comment: Ex - USS Cabot (CVL-28). Comissioned for the USN on July 24th 1943, decommissioned on February 12th 1947.