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CARIBE patrol escorts (1943-1944/1947)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Caribe (ex-PCE872) PE301   Albina, Portland, USA 1.1943 24.3.1943 11.1943 // 11.1947 stricken 1976
Siboney (ex-PCE893) PE302   Willamette Iron & Steel, Portland, USA 10.1943 8.5.1944 7.1944 // 11.1947 hulk 1973


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

795

Displacement full, t

903

Length, m

54.9 wl 56.2 oa

Breadth, m

10.1

Draught, m

2.90

No of shafts2
Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.2000
Max speed, kts

15.1

Fuel, tdiesel oil 140
Endurance, nm(kts)8500 (12)
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 21, 3 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR

Electronic equipment

SG or SL radar, QHA sonar

Complement96


Standard scale images


<i>Caribe </i>1955
Caribe 1955


Project history

Former USN PCE class patrol escorts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.