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Caldas 1974

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Caldas (ex-Willard Keith)	D02	9024	Bethlehem, San Pedro, USA	3/1944	29.8.1944	12/1944 // 1.7.1972	discarded 1977
Santander (ex-Waldron)	D03	384	Federal, Kearny, USA	11/1943	26.3.1944	6/1944 // 30.10.1973	discarded 1986

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2345
Displacement full, t	3210
Length, m	112.5 wl 114.8 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	4.30
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	33.4
Fuel, t	oil 497
Endurance, nm(kts)	3300 (20)
Armament	D02: 3 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 12, 2 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 x 24 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL D03: 3 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 x 24 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 1 helicopter (BO-105)
Electronic equipment	D02: SPS-6, SPS-10, Mk 25, Mk 34 radars, QHB sonar, WLR-1, ULQ-6 ECM suites D03: SPS-10, SPS-40, Mk 25 radars, SQS-30 sonar, WLR-1, ULQ-6 ECM suites
Complement	274

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Project history

Former USN Allen M. Sumner class destroyers. Santander was modernized under FRAM II programme under the USN flag.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.