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Audaz 1952

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Audaz	D31		SECN, Ferrol	26.9.1945	24.1.1951	30.6.1953	stricken 9.1974
Osado	D32		SECN, Ferrol	3.8.1945	4.9.1951	26.1.1955	stricken 7.1972
Meteoro (ex-Atrevido)	D33		SECN, Ferrol	3.8.1945	4.9.1951	30.11.1955	stricken 9.1974
Furor	D34		SECN, Ferrol	3.8.1945	24.2.1955	9.9.1960	stricken 8.1974
Rayo	D35		SECN, Ferrol	3.8.1945	4.9.1951	26.1.1956	stricken 8.1974
Ariete	D36		SECN, Ferrol	3.8.1945	24.2.1955	7.2.1961	wrecked 25.2.1966
Temerario	D37		SECN, Ferrol	14.7.1945	29.3.1960	16.3.1964	stricken 12.1975
Intrépido	D38		SECN, Ferrol	14.7.1945	15.2.1961	25.3.1965	stricken 3.1982
Relámpago	D39		SECN, Ferrol	14.7.1945	26.9.1961	7.7.1965	stricken 12.1975

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	Audaz, Osado, Meteoro: 1106 others: 1227
Displacement full, t	Audaz, Osado, Meteoro: 1474 others: 1548
Length, m	90.0 pp 93.9 oa
Breadth, m	9.49
Draught, m	3.44
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Rateau-Bretagne geared steam turbines, 3 La Seyne boilers
Power, h. p.	30800
Max speed, kts	Audaz, Osado, Meteoro: 33 others: 31.6
Fuel, t	oil 290
Endurance, nm(kts)	3800(14)
Armament	Audaz, Osado, Meteoro: 3 x 1 - 105/45 SK C/32, 2 x 2 - 37/83 SK C/30, 2 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 1 DCR, 30 mines others: 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 2 x 1 - 40/70 SP48, 2 - 324 TR (side, 6), 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR
Electronic equipment	later ships: SPS-5B, MLA-1B, Mk 63 radars, QHBa sonar
Complement	Audaz, Osado, Meteoro: 145 others: 199

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Project history

Small destroyers (actually torpedo boats), built under 1939 programme. Type 158 was designed with German help on the basis of construction of French torpedo boats of Le Fier class, which drawings have been bought in occupied France in September, 1942. Machinery would made under French licence: Rateau turbines and La Seyne boilers» with raised steam parameters (as on Oquendo class destroyers), was arranged en echelon. In a hull structure for the first time in Spain welding was widely used. All 9 ships have been authorized 30.3.1944 and laid down in July-September, 1945. However further building was strongly delayed, mainly because SECN, mastering production of French turbines and boilers, only to 1950 could adjust their production, thus machinery with given boilers appeared absolutely unreliable. Only in 1953-1955 first Audaz, Osado and Meteoro (ex-Atrevido) were commissioned under original project, appeared seriously overloaded. Rayo was commissioned in 1958 as test ship, and remaining five ships were completed in 1960-1965 as ASW frigates with modern American armament and electronics, later first four ships have been similarly converted also.

Modernizations

1959-1963, Audaz, Osado, Meteoro, Rayo: were rebuilt as later ships.

Naval service

Ariete was lost 25.2.1966: owing to boilers accident she lost speed and ran ashore at coast of Galicia.