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Tâmega 1933  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Douro	D		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK // Estaleiro Real de Lisboa		22.1.1913	1913	discarded 1931
Guadiana	G		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK // Estaleiro Real de Lisboa		21.9.1914	1915	discarded 1934
Vouga	V		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK // Estaleiro Real de Lisboa		19.4.1920	1920	lost 1.5.1931
Tâmega	TA		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK // Estaleiro Real de Lisboa		21.10.1922	1924	discarded 1945

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	515
Displacement full, t	660
Length, m	73.2
Breadth, m	7.20
Draught, m	2.30 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Parsons steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	11000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 146
Endurance, nm(kts)	1600(15)
Armament	1 x 1 - 100/44 A(tr)10/45, 2 x 1 - 76/40 A(tr)76/40, 2 x 2 - 450 TT
Complement	80

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Project history

Very similar to British River class destroyers. They were built in Britain by Yarrow and assembled from ready sections at Lisbon. Lead ship on trials has shown 30.3kts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Vouga was wrecked 1.5.1931. To the WWII beginning Tâmega was considered become outdated and was used mainly as training ship and was stricken right after the war.