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Châteaurenault 1961

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Châteaurenault (ex-Attilio Regolo)	1954- D606		OTO, Livorno, Italy	28.9.1939	28.8.1940	14.5.1942 // 8.1948	stricken 1962
Guichen (ex-Scipione Africano)	1954- D607		OTO, Livorno, Italy	28.9.1939	12.1.1941	23.4.1943 // 8.1948	stricken 1961

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3686
Displacement full, t	5334
Length, m	138.7 pp 142.9 oa
Breadth, m	14.4
Draught, m	4.90 mean deep
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Beluzzo geared steam turbines, 4 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	110000
Max speed, kts	40
Fuel, t	oil 1387
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(25)
Armour, mm	turrets: 20, bridge: 15
Armament	4 x 2 - 135/45 OTO/Ansaldo 1938, 8 x 1 - 37/54 Breda 1939, 4 x 2 - 20/65 Breda 1935, 2 x 4 - 533 TT (12), 2 DCT, 2 DCR (24), 114 - 136 mines
Electronic equipment	EC.3 radar
Complement	418

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Project history

Former Italian light cruisers of Capitani Romani class, acquired under the Peace Treaty of 1948.

Ship protection

Turrets had 20mm faces, 6mm sides and rears. Bridge had 15mm protection.

Modernizations

(1951-1954), both: were reconstructed with 3 x 2 - 105/65 SK C/33, 5 x 2 - 57/60 Mod 1951, 4 x 3 - 550 TT, DRBV-20A, DRBV-11, DRBC-11, 2x DRBC-30 radars

late 1950s, both: - 1 x 2 - 105/65 (aft), 2 x 3 - 550 TT

Naval service

 Both were reclassified as destroyers in 1954 and fitted out in the late 1950s as command ships and flotilla leaders.