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Granville 1938

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Drummond	M2		Astileros Navale, Rio Santiago	1935	17.6.1936	6.1937	stricken 3.1964
Robinson	M3		Hansen y Puccini, San Fernando	1937	18.8.1938	5.1939	stricken 12.1967
Granville	M4		Astileros Navale, Rio Santiago	1935	7.1.1937	9.1937	stricken 12.1967
Fournier	M5		Sanchez, San Fernando	1937	5.8.1939	10.1940	wrecked 22.9.1949
Bouchard	M7		Astileros Navale, Rio Santiago	1935	20.3.1936	1.1937	to Paraguay 2.1964 (Nanawa)
Py	M10		Astileros Navale, Rio Santiago	1937	21.3.1938	7.1939	to Paraguay 11.1967 (Teniente Farina)
Parker	M11		Sanchez, San Fernando	1.1936	2.5.1937	5.1938	stricken 7.1963
Seaver	M12		Hansen y Puccini, San Fernando	1937	18.8.1938	5.1939	to Paraguay 11.1967 (Capitán Meza)
Spiro	M13, 2.1962- GC12		Astileros Navale, Rio Santiago	1937	7.6.1937	1.1938	Prefectura Naval 2.1962, deleted 1983

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	450
Displacement full, t	520
Length, m	59.0
Breadth, m	7.30
Draught, m	2.27
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 MAN diesels
Power, h. p.	2000
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	diesel oil 50
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 102/50 Bethlehem Mod.1 or 2 x 1 - 100/47 OTO, 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	62

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Project history

First rather large ships built in Argentina. They were designed on the basis of German-built Bathurst class, but with diesels instead of steam engines. Probably, part of ships had Italian 100mm/47 guns. Ships differed by low stability.

Modernizations

1960s, all: + radar

1962, Spiro: was armed with 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1 only

Naval service

Fournier was lost 22.9.1949, having ran on uncharted underwater rock in Magellan Strait. Bouchard, Py and Seaver were sold to Paraguay as river gunboats. Two first served under Paraguayan flag today, and Capitan Meza from late 1990s is used as accommodation ship.