D-22 Almirante Ferrándiz

Country:  Spain

Class, [Type]: Fletcher, [DD].

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

Launch date: 04 July 1942.

Commission date: 15 May 1957.

Decommission date: 17 November 1987.

 Draw by A.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 ): 5000 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.

Comment: Ex - USS David. W. Taylor ( DD 551 ). Commissioned for the US Navy on September 18th 1943. Reaconditioned at San Francisco, California, and transferred to the Spanish Navy on May 15th 1957, and sailed to Spain on July 1st 1957. Purchased by the spanish government on October 1st 1972.