D-41 Oquendo

Country:  Spain

Class, [Type]: Oquendo, [DD].

Builder: Bazán, El Ferrol, Spain.

Launch date: 05 September 1956.

Commission date: 13 September 1960.

Decommission date: 02 November 1978.

 Draw by Antoni Casinos

Displacement ( tons ): 2.342 standard, 3.005 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 116,4 x 11,1 x 3,8

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

Speed ( knots ): 32,4.

Range ( miles ): 5.000 at 15 knots.

Complement: 250 ( 17 officers ).

Guns: 4 x 120mm/50 ( 2 NG 53 double mountings ), 6 x 40mm/70.

Torpedoes: 2 x Mk11 Mod 0 Hedgehogs, 2 x Mk4 side launchers with 3 Mk32 torpedoes each.

Radar: Search: British 293 type; Air Search: Marconi SNW 10; Fire Control: British type 275 on Mk6 DCT and British type 262 on CRBFD ( or MRS 8 ).

Sonar: 1 x QHB-a.

Helicopter: 1 x Hughes 500 ASW.

Comment: Ordered in 1947. Initially completed on 13 September 1960. Completed modernisation on 22 April 1963.