D-21 Lepanto

Country:  Spain

Class, [Type]: Fletcher, [DD].

Builder: Gulf S.B. Corporation, Chickasaw, Alabama, U.S.A.

Launch date: 31 May 1941.

Commission date: 15 May 1955.

Decommission date: 31 December 1985.

 Draw by Antoni Casinos

Displacement ( tons ): 2080 standard, 2750 normal, 3050 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: 5 x 127mm/38 Mk 30, 6 x 40mm/60 Mk1, 6 x 20mm/70 Mk4.

Torpedoes: 6 x Mk32 tubes ( two triple mountings ) for A/S torpedoes; 2 x Mk11 Hedgehogs; 2 x depth charge racks..

Radar: Search: SPS 6C; Tactical: SPS 10.

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

Callsign: EBAO ()

Comment: Ex - USS Capps ( DD 550 ). Commissioned for the US Navy on 23 June 1943. Reaconditioned at San Francisco, California, and transferred to the Spanish Navy on 15 May 1957, and sailing to Spain on 1 July 1957. Purchased by the spanish government on 1 October 1972. Lepanto was damaged on grounding 16 April 1977..