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Gonçalves Zarco 1950

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Gonçalo Velho	1956- F475		Hawthorn Leslie, Tyne, UK	10.1931	3.8.1932	5.1933	BU 6.1961
Gonçalves Zarco	1956- F476		Hawthorn Leslie, Tyne, UK	10.1931	28.11.1932	9.1933	discarded 1969

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	950
Displacement full, t	1414
Length, m	76.2 pp 81.7 oa
Breadth, m	10.8
Draught, m	3.43
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	2000
Max speed, kts	16.5
Fuel, t	oil 470
Endurance, nm(kts)	6000(10)
Armament	3 x 1 - 120/50 Vickers-Armstrong Mk G, 4 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 2 DCR
Complement	142

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Project history

Small, but well armed colonial sloops. They were ordered in 1931 in Britain to Hawthorn Leslie. Project was developed on basis of British sloop Bridgewater from her Portuguese ship differed by increased hull beam, third 120mm gun and increased fuel stowage, but had no minesweeping equipment. Officially they were rated as 2nd class avisos.

Modernizations

1943, both: - 4 x 1 - 40/39; + 5 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 4 DCT, presumably sonar

1948, both: presumably + radar

Naval service

No significant events.