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Alcalá Galiano 1977

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Lepanto (ex-Capps)	D21		Gulf SB, Chickasaw, USA	7/1941	31.5.1942	6/1943 // 15.5.1957	stricken 12.1985
Almirante Ferrándiz (ex-David W. Taylor)	D22		Gulf SB, Chickasaw, USA	7/1941	4.7.1942	6/1943 // 15.5.1957	stricken 11.1987
Almirante Valdéz (ex-Converse)	D23		Bath Iron Wks, USA	2.1942	30.8.1942	11/1942 // 1.7.1959	stricken 10.1986
Alcalá Galiano (ex-Jarvis)	D24		Seattle-Tacoma, Seattle, USA	6/1943	14.2.1944	6/1944 // 3.11.1960	stricken 10.1989
Jorge Juan (ex-McGowan)	D25		Federal, Kearny, USA	6/1943	14.11.1943	12/1943 // 1.12.1960	stricken 9.1988

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2325
Displacement full, t	3005
Length, m	112.5 wl 114.7 oa
Breadth, m	12.1
Draught, m	4.19 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	38
Fuel, t	oil 492
Endurance, nm(kts)	6500 (15)
Armament	D21, 22: 5 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 3 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 6 DCT, 2 DCR D23-25: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 3 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 1 DCR
Electronic equipment	D21, 22: SPS-6C, SPS-10, Mk 25 radars, SQS-4 sonar D23-25: SPS-6C, SPS-10, Mk 25, 2x SPG-34, Mk 35 radars, SQS-29 sonar, BLR-1 ECM suite
Complement	290

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Project history

Fletcher class destroyers transferred under MDAP.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.