A-629 Durance

Country:  France

Class, [Type]: Durance, [AOR].

Builder: Brest Naval Dockyard, France.

Launch date: 06 September 1975.

Commission date: 01 December 1976.

Decommission date: 12 July 1999.

Displacement ( tons ): 17.900 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 157,3 x 21,2 x 10,8

Main machinery: 2 x SEMT-Pielstick 16 PC2.5 V 400 diesels ( 20.800 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 19.

Range ( miles ): 9.000 at 15 knots.

Complement: 164 ( 18 officers ).

Guns: 3 x Breda/Mauser 30mm/70, 4 x 12,7mm.

Military lift: 7.500 tonnes FFO, 1.500 tonnes diesel, 500 tonnes TR5, 140 tonnes distilled water, 170 tonnes victualling stores, 150 tonnes ammunition, 50tm spares.

Radar: Navigation: 2 x DRBN-32 or DRBN-34A, I band.

Helicopter: 1 x Lynx Mk2/4.

Comment: They have been fitted with a Syracuse SATCOM communications set. It is waiting for EW equipment, ECM and ESM, in order to compensate for the low anti-aircraft defense of the ship. Transferred to reserve on july 1997, and in 1999 was sold to Argentina, where it serves as "Patagonia" since 12th july 1999.

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