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Eduardo Dato 1925

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, 1930- Cánovas del Castillo			SECN, Cartagena	2.1921	21.1.1922	12.1923	stricken 12.1959
José Canalejas, 1930- Canalejas			SECN, Cartagena	6.1921	1.12.1922	9.1924	stricken 9.1951
Eduardo Dato, 1930- Dato			SECN, Cartagena	4.1922	10.7.1923	5.1925	stricken 7.1953

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1314
Displacement normal, t	1335
Length, m	76.6 wl 77.3 oa
Breadth, m	10.2
Draught, m	3.42
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	1700
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	coal 324
Endurance, nm(kts)	6500(10.5)
Armament	4 x 1 - 102/45 Vickers Mk LA, 2 x 1 - 47/50 Vickers
Complement	132

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Project history

Ships were built under the law from 17.2.1915 as increased variant of Recalde. In 1920s names José Canaleas and Eduardo Dato have been shrunk, though official commands on it did not go out.

Modernizations

(8/1936-2/1937), Dato; (2-9/1937), Cánovas del Castillo; (8/1937-1/1938), Dato: stem was reconstructed as straight, superstructure was rebuilt, all guns were installed on centre line and received shields; - 2 x 1 - 47/50; + 2 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1917, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Scotti-Isotta Fraschini 1939.

1940s, all: - 2 x 1 - 76/40, 1 x 1 - 20/70; + 2 x 1 - 47/50 Vickers, 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38.

Naval service

At beginning of Civil war Cánovas del Castillo, Eduardo Dato and José Canalejas were transferred under control of Nationalists. Eduardo Dato at Algeciras 7.8.1936 was sunk by gunfire of republican battleship Jaime I. She was salvaged in the same month and passed repair in Cadiz with full modernization till February, 1937. Two sister-ships were modernized later similarly. In 1958 last survived ship was re-classified as frigate.