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Vouga 1933

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Dão	D, 1956- D331		Estaleiro Real de Lisboa		30.7.1934	1.1935	stricken 11.1960
Douro			Estaleiro Real de Lisboa		9.6.1932	1934 // ---	incomplete to Colombia 1934 (Antioquia)
Douro	DR, 1956- D332		Estaleiro Real de Lisboa		15.8.1934	2.1936	stricken 12.1959
Lima	L, 1956- D333		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK		29.5.1933	10.1933	stricken 10.1965
Tejo			Estaleiro Real de Lisboa		9.6.1932	1934 // ---	incomplete to Colombia 1934 (Caldas)
Vouga	V, 1956- D334		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK		25.1.1933	6.1933	stricken 6.1967
Tejo	T, 1956- D335		Estaleiro Real de Lisboa		4.5.1935	10.1935	stricken 2.1965

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1219
Displacement full, t	1563
Length, m	93.6 pp 98.5 oa
Breadth, m	9.45
Draught, m	3.35
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	33000
Max speed, kts	36
Fuel, t	oil 345
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(15)
Armament	4 x 1 - 120/50 Vickers Mk G, 3 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 20 mines, 2 DCR (12)
Electronic equipment	presumably hydrophone
Complement	127

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Project history

Designed by Yarrow on a basis of British destroyer Ambuscade. From British prototype they differed by main guns: on Portuguese destroyers there were Vickers-Armstrong Mk G 120mm/50 guns with separated loading and box-shaped shields. AA armament was comprised by three 40mm/39 pompoms in single mounts with 85° max elevation (two on aft superstructure, one between funnels). All ships were arranged for minelaying, but with mines onboard the metacentric height fell to dangerous value. Machinery included three Yarrow boilers with lateral arrangement of fire chambers and economizers (28atm working pressure) and Curtiss geared turbine units with Parsons cruising turbines.

Contract with Yarrow on two ships and four complete sets of machineries was concluded 12.6.1931. Lima and Vouga were built in Britain, Douro and Tejo in Portugal. 18.1.1933 the order for one more complete set of machinery, for scheduled to building in Portugal Dão has followed. First Vouga has shown 36.17kts on trials at 32255hp. On trials Lima made 36.36kts at 33050hp. Soon after commission complement has been increased to 147.

Two ships built in Portugal, Douro and Tejo, in the early 1934, before commission, have been sold to Colombia as Caldas and Antioquia as a opponents to two Peruvian destroyers of Novik class, bought in 1933 in Estonia. Instead of them in Lisbon two new ships under the same names were laid down, machineries were again ordered to Yarrow.

Modernizations

1942-1943, all: + 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1946-1949, all: - 3 x 1 - 40/39, 1 x 4 - 533 TT (fwd); + 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 DCT; complement was 184

1957, all: - 2 x 1 - 120/50, 4 x 1 - 20/70, 4 DCT; + 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 9, 3 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 1 x 3 - 305 Squid Mk 4 ASWRL, MLA-1B radar, type 147 sonar

Naval service

No significant events.