Country: Spain
Class, [Type]: Gearing, [DD].
Builder: Consolidated Steel Corp, Orange, Texas, U.S.A.
Launch date: 09 March 1945.
Commission date: 13 September 1972.
Decommission date: 30 September 1991.
Displacement ( tons ): 2.425 standard, 3.480 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 119 x 12,4 x 5,8
Main machinery: 2 x Westinghouse or GE turbines ( 60.000 hp ), 4 x Babcock Wilcox boilers.
Speed ( knots ): 34.
Range ( miles ): 4.800 at 15 knots.
Complement: 274 ( 17 officers ).
Guns: 4 x 127mm/38 ( 2 x double mountings ).
Torpedoes: 6 x Mk32 tubes ( two triple mountings ), 1 x ASROC launcher.
Radar: Search: SPS 37; Surface search: SPS 10; Fire Control: radar directed Mk37 Director.
Sonar: SQS 23, hull mounted.
Countermeasures: 2 x SRBOC Mk36, chaff and flare launchers; ESM/ECM: AN/WLR 1 ( warning ), ULQ-6 ( jammer ).
Helicopter: 1 x Hughes 500M.
Comment: Ex - USS Furse ( DD 882 ). Transferred on 31st August 1972, and finally purchased on 1978.
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