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Amazonas 1935

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Amazonas	CF11, 1960- 11		Electric Boat, Groton, USA		1934	7/1935	in service (2019)
Loreto	CF12, 1960- 12		Electric Boat, Groton, USA		1934	7/1935	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	250
Displacement full, t
Length, m	44.1 pp 46.7 oa
Breadth, m	6.71
Draught, m	1.37
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels
Power, h. p.	750
Max speed, kts	15.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(10)
Armament	4 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94
Electronic equipment	none
Complement	35

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Project history

Built for service on upper Amazon. Boats differed from "classical" river gunboats by "laconic" outline profile, diesel machinery and DP guns.

Modernizations

1960s, both: - 2 x 1 - 76/50, 2 x 1 - 47/40, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94; + 4 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, radar

1980s: - old radar; + Furuno radar

Naval service

No significant events.