TA-11 Aragón

Country:  Spain

Class, [Type]: Haskell, [APA].

Builder: Permanente Metals + Kaiser Shipyards, Richmond, California, U.S.A.

Launch date: 18 October 1944.

Commission date: 16 December 1964.

Decommission date: 01 January 1982.

Displacement ( tons ): 6.873 standard, 14.837 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 138 x 18 x 7

Main machinery: 2 x Babcock-Wilcox boilers, 1 x Westinghouse turbine ( 8.500 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 19.

Range ( miles ): 10.000 at 15 knots, 11.700 at 11 knots.

Complement: 357.

Guns: 12 x Boffors 40mm/56 ( 4 x double mounting, 1 x quad mounting ).

Military lift: 1.561 marines; 2 x LCM; 12 x LCVP; 3 x LCPs.

Radar: Air: 1 x Westinghouse AN/SPS-6.

Comment: Former USS-Noble APA-218. Transferred to Spain under terms of Mutual Assistance Program in 1964. Distinguished itself for campaings in Okinawa, Korea, Cuba and Vietnam while in american service, and for operations in Ecuatorial Guinea and Western Sahara while in spanish service. Scrapped in 1987.

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