NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Flores (ex-PC812), 1956- Príncipe	1956- P581		Commercial Iron Wks, Portland, USA	11.1943	11.2.1944	5.1945 // 1948	discarded 1968
Madeira (ex-PC811)	1956- P582		Commercial Iron Wks, Portland, USA	11.1943	18.12.1943	4.1945 // 1948	discarded 1968
Santiago (ex-PC1257)	1956- P583		Luders Marine, Stamford, USA	11.1943	23.7.1944	12.1944 // 1948	discarded 1967
Sal (ex-PC809)	1956- P584		Commercial Iron Wks, Portland, USA	10.1943	4.12.1943	3.1945 // 1948	discarded 1969
São Tomé (ex-PC1256)	1956- P585		Luders Marine, Stamford, USA	10.1943	21.5.1944	10.1944 // 1948	discarded 1969
São Vicente (ex-PC1259)	1956- P586		Luders Marine, Stamford, USA	1.1944	7.10.1944	3.1945 // 1948	discarded 1969

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	414
Displacement full, t	463
Length, m	51.8 wl 52.9 oa
Breadth, m	7.06
Draught, m	3.30 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels
Power, h. p.	2880
Max speed, kts	19
Fuel, t	diesel oil 49
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000 (12)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 21, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR
Electronic equipment	SF or SO or SU radar, QHA sonar
Complement	65

Standard scale images

Project history

Purchased by Portugal in 1948 under MDAP.

Modernizations

1957, all: - 1 x 1 - 76/50, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap ASWRL, 2 DCR; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 2 DCT

Naval service

No significant events.