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Guanajuato 1936

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Guanajuato	C7, 1993- C07		SECN, El Ferrol, Spain		28.5.1934	5.1936	stricken 7.2001
Querétaro	C8, later- H09		SECN, El Ferrol, Spain		28.7.1934	4.1936	stricken 1975
Potosi	C9		SECN, Cadiz, Spain		24.8.1934	4.1936	stricken 1975

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1300
Displacement full, t	1950
Length, m	79.2 pp 80.4 oa
Breadth, m	11.5
Draught, m	3.05
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	5000
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	oil 140
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(14)
Armament	3 x 1 - 102/45 Vickers Mk LA, 2 x 2 - 25/60 Hotchkiss, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76
Military load	230 troops, 40 horses
Complement	140

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Project history

Original ships combining functions of gunboat and military transport. Design was developed on the basis of Spanish Canovas del Castillo gunboat. At expense of hull increasing and some decreasing of armament Mexican ships were available to take aboard up to 230 infantrymen and 40 horses for whom there was special accommodation in an aft superstructure. After introduction of Mexico into the war, all three gunboats passed repair and modernizations on US shipyards in California.

Modernizations

1942, all: - 2 x 2 - 25/60; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 DCT

1958, Queretaro; 1961, Potosi; 1964, Guanajuato: geared turbines were replaced by Enterprise DMR-38 diesels (5000hp, 14kts only); - 2 x 1 - 102/45; + radars

Naval service

Guanajuato after discarding was preserved as memorial in Veracruz.