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Tucumán 1936

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Mendoza	M, E3, 1940- T3, 1952- D3	1651	White, Cowes, UK	1927	18.7.1928	1.1929	stricken 4.1962
La Rioja	LR, E4, 1940- T4, 1952- D4	1653	White, Cowes, UK	1927	2.2.1929	7.1929	stricken 4.1962
Tucumán	T, E5, 1940- T5, 1952- D5	1652	White, Cowes, UK	1927	16.10.1928	5.1929	stricken 4.1962

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1570
Displacement full, t	2120
Length, m	101.2 pp 102.1 oa
Breadth, m	9.68
Draught, m	3.81 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	42000
Max speed, kts	36
Fuel, t	oil 540
Endurance, nm(kts)	4500(14)
Armament	5 x 1 - 120/45 Vickers-Armstrong Mk E, 1 x 1 - 76/45 Vickers Mk SS, 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 2 x 3 - 533 TT
Complement	160

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Project history

Ships were built in the Great Britain under the 1926 programme. They have inherited names of ships of the 1907 programme, built in France (Mendoza and La Rioja) or Germany (Tucuman) and requisitioned with the WWI beginning. The order was given out in 1927. Structurally they repeated British leader Scott. Armament and fire control system were similar to Churucca. On 6hr trials Mendoza and Tucuman reached 38kts, La Rioja shown 39.4kts.     Ships have arrived to Argentina in November, 1929, and Tucuman and La Rioja have made 5800nm passage from Lisbon to Puerto Belgrano without calls to other ports.

In 1952 ships were re-rated as destroyer escorts.

Modernizations

late 1940s, all: - 1 x 1 - 120/45, 1 x 1 - 76/45; + 3 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1

Naval service

La Rioja and Tucumán were disarmed and placed in reserve in 1952.