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Chihuahua 1976

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
California (ex-Belet)	H3, 1965- B03		Bethlehem, Hingham, USA	1.1944	3.3.1944	6.1945 // 12.1963	wrecked 16.1.1972
Papaloapan (ex-Earheart)	H4, 1965- B04		Bethlehem, Hingham, USA	3.1944	12.5.1945	7.1945 // 12.1963	wrecked 1976, CTL
Tehuantepec (ex-Joseph M. Auman), 1980s- Zacatacas	H5, 1965- B05		Consolidated, Orange, USA	11.1943	5.2.1944	4.1945 // 12.1963	discarded 1989
Usumacinta (ex-Don O. Woods), 1980s- Miguel Hidalgo, 1994- Usumacinta	H6, 1965- B06, 1994- E20		Consolidated, Orange, USA	12.1943	19.2.1944	5.1945 // 12.1963	stricken 7.2001
Coahuila (ex-Rednour), 1980s- Vincente Guerrero, 1994- Coahuila	B07, 1994- E21		Bethlehem, Hingham, USA	12.1943	12.2.1944	12.1944 // 6.1969	stricken 7.2001
Chihuahua (ex-Barber), 1980s- José María Morelos y Pavon, 1994- Chihuahua	B08, 1994- E22		Norfolk N Yd, Portsmouth, USA	4/1943	20.5.1943	10/1943 // 12.1969	stricken 7.2001

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1400
Displacement full, t	2130
Length, m	91.4 wl 93.3 oa
Breadth, m	11.3
Draught, m	3.84 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 General Electric steam turbo-generators, 2 boilers, 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	12000
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	oil 350
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000 (15)
Armament	1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 3 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10
Military load	4 LCVP, 162 marines, deck cargo
Electronic equipment	SC radar
Complement	204

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Project history

Former USN APD class fast personnel transports. Only Coahuila had lattice mast aft and high bridge, others had tripod aft and low bridge.

Modernizations

1980s, Tehuantepec, Usumacinta, Chihuahua: - SC radar, 6 x 1 - 20/70; + Kelvin Hughes 14/9 radar

1980s, Coahuila: - SC radar, 4 x 1 - 20/70; + Kelvin Hughes 14/9 radar

Naval service

California stranded and lost on Bahia, California, 16.1.1972. Papaloapan stranded in 1976, later raised and discarded.