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CASTILLA attack cargo ship (1944/1965)
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Castilla 1970
Ships
Name |
No |
Yard No | Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comm |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Castilla (ex-Achernar), 1980- unnamed |
TA21 |
Federal, Kearny, USA |
9.1943 |
3.12.1943 |
1.1944 // 2.2.1965 |
stricken 1987 |
Technical data
| Displacement standard, t | 7430 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | 11416 |
| Length, m | 132.6 wl 139.9 oa |
| Breadth, m | 19.2 |
| Draught, m | 7.92 max |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | 1 set General Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Foster Wheeler boilers |
| Power, h. p. | 6000 |
| Max speed, kts | 16.5 |
| Fuel, t | oil 1553 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 16046(12) |
| Armament | 1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 4 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1 |
| Military load | 6 LCM(6), 2 LCM(3), 13 LCVP, 1 LCPL, ~4900 t of cargo, 74 - 78 marines |
| Electronic equipment | presumably SF or SG or SH or SL or SO or SU radar |
| Complement | 404 |
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Castilla 1970
Project history
USN Andromeda class ship, built in standard type C2-S-B1 hull.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
In 1980 the ship was laid up and unnamed, her name was transferred to other assault transport.
