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BOUCHARD minesweepers (1937-1940)


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Granville 1938

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Drummond M2   Astileros Navale, Rio Santiago 1935 17.6.1936 6.1937 stricken 3.1964
Robinson M3   Hansen y Puccini, San Fernando 1937 18.8.1938 5.1939 stricken 12.1967
Granville M4   Astileros Navale, Rio Santiago 1935 7.1.1937 9.1937 stricken 12.1967
Fournier M5   Sanchez, San Fernando 1937 5.8.1939 10.1940 wrecked 22.9.1949
Bouchard M7   Astileros Navale, Rio Santiago 1935 20.3.1936 1.1937 to Paraguay 2.1964 (Nanawa)
Py M10   Astileros Navale, Rio Santiago 1937 21.3.1938 7.1939 to Paraguay 11.1967 (Teniente Farina)
Parker M11   Sanchez, San Fernando 1.1936 2.5.1937 5.1938 stricken 7.1963
Seaver M12   Hansen y Puccini, San Fernando 1937 18.8.1938 5.1939 to Paraguay 11.1967 (Capitán Meza)
Spiro M13, 2.1962- GC12   Astileros Navale, Rio Santiago 1937 7.6.1937 1.1938 Prefectura Naval 2.1962, deleted 1983


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

450

Displacement full, t

520

Length, m

59.0

Breadth, m

7.30

Draught, m

2.27

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 MAN diesels

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

diesel oil 50

Endurance, nm(kts)3000(10)
Armament

2 x 1 - 102/50 Bethlehem Mod.1 or 2 x 1 - 100/47 OTO, 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

62



Standard scale images


<i>Bouchard</i> 1937
Bouchard 1937
<i>Bouchard </i>1960
Bouchard 1960


Graphics


<i>Granville </i>1938
Granville 1938
<i>Spiro </i>1969
Spiro 1969


Project history

First rather large ships built in Argentina. They were designed on the basis of German-built Bathurst class, but with diesels instead of steam engines. Probably, part of ships had Italian 100mm/47 guns. Ships differed by low stability.

Modernizations

1960s, all: + radar

1962, Spiro: was armed with 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1 only

Naval service

Fournier was lost 22.9.1949, having ran on uncharted underwater rock in Magellan Strait. Bouchard, Py and Seaver were sold to Paraguay as river gunboats. Two first served under Paraguayan flag today, and Capitan Meza from late 1990s is used as accommodation ship.