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  Candido de Lasala 1980

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Candido de Lasala (ex-Gunston Hall)	Q43		Moore, Oakland, USA	1942	1.5.1943	11.1943 // 25.5.1970	deleted 1982

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	4490
Displacement full, t	9375
Length, m	138.4 wl 139.5 oa
Breadth, m	22.0
Draught, m	4.83
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Skinner Uniflow QuiPE, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	7400
Max speed, kts	15.4
Fuel, t	oil 1770
Endurance, nm(kts)	7400 (15)
Armament	2 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, helicopter deck
Military load	3 LCT(5) or 3 LCT(6) or 2 LCT(3) or 2 LCT(4) or 14 LCM(3) or 1450 t of cargo or 41 LVT or 47 DUKW (up to 92 LVT or 108 DUKW if additional decks are installed), 332 marines
Electronic equipment	presumably SF or SG or SL or SU radar
Complement	254

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Project history

Former USN war-built LSD. When required she was used as a depot ship for small craft.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.