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Caldas 1947

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Antioquia (ex-Tejo)	D01		Estaleiro Real de Lisboa, Portugal		10.5.1933	2.1934	stricken 1961
Caldas (ex-Douro)	D02		Estaleiro Real de Lisboa, Portugal		18.11.1933	4.1934	stricken 1961

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1219
Displacement full, t	1563
Length, m	93.6 pp 98.5 oa
Breadth, m	9.44
Draught, m	2.74
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	33000
Max speed, kts	36
Fuel, t	oil 292
Endurance, nm(kts)	5400(15)
Armament	4 x 1 - 120/50 Armstrong Mk G, 3 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 20 mines, 2 DCT (12)
Electronic equipment	presumably hydrophone
Complement	147

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Project history

Two of seven Portuguese Lima class destroyers, built in the Great Britain and Portugal under Yarrow design. Still being on the stocks, two lead Portuguese-built ships were 27.3.1933 sold to Colombia at intermediary of British private concern as a backweight to two Peruvian Novik class destroyers, purchased the same year by Estonia. Crews of both Colombian ships were at first hired by the same firm from Englishmen. Ships arrived to Colombia 14.5.1934. Destroyers were designed on a basis of British destroyer Ambuscade from which differed by main artillery. Ships were arranged for minelaying. Machinery included 3 Yarrow boilers with lateral arrangement of fire chambers and economizers (28atm operating pressure) and Curtiss geared turbine sets with Parsons cruising turbines.

Modernizations

1942-1945, both: + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4

1952, Antioquia; 1955, Caldas: - 4 x 1 - 120/50, 3 x 1 - 40/39, 2 x 1 - 20/70, 1 x 4 - 533 TT; + 2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 6 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 4 DCT, radar, sonar

Naval service

No significant events.

Caldas 1947