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Cochrane 1979

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Blanco Encalada (ex-Wadleigh)	14		Bath Iron Wks, USA	4/1943	7.8.1943	10/1943 // 26.7.1962	stricken 4.1982
Cochrane (ex-Rooks)	15		Seattle-Tacoma, Seattle, USA	10/1943	6.6.1944	9/1944 // 26.7.1962	stricken 4.1982

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2325 - 2276
Displacement full, t	2924 - 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	4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 3 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 6 DCT, 2 DCR (56)
Electronic equipment	SPS-6, SPS-10, Mk 25, Mk 34 radars, QCJ sonar
Complement	273

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Project history

Former USN Fletcher class destroyers. Initially three more Fletchers were to have been transferred in 1966, but really four Charles Lawrence class APDs were received.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.