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CAMBIASO corvettes (1945/1976)


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Separación 1980

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Cambiaso (ex-Etlah) P207   Marietta Mfg, USA   16.12.1944 16.4.1945 // 9.1976 stricken 1997
Separación (ex-Passaconaway) P208   Marine Iron & Railway, Duluth, USA   30.6.1944 27.4.1945 // 9.1976 stricken 2006
Calderas (ex-Passaic) P209   Leatham D. Smith, Sturgeon Bay, USA   29.6.1944 6.3.1945 // 9.1976 stricken 2004


Technical data


Displacement standard, t650
Displacement full, t785
Length, m

44.5 pp 51.4 oa
Breadth, m

10.3
Draught, m

3.30
No of shafts1
Machinery

2 Busch-Sulzer BS-539 diesel-generators, 1 electric motor
Power, h. p.1200
Max speed, kts

12.3
Fuel, t

diesel oil 88
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

P207, 208: 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 21, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10

P209: 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 21, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10
Electronic equipmentSPS-64 radar
Complement

48


Standard scale images


<i>Calderas </i>1980
Calderas 1980


Graphics


<i>Separación </i>1980
Separación 1980


Project history

Former USN Cohoes class net tenders, laid up since 1963. Cambiaso and Separación had the net tender horns removed and a second 76mm gun installed on the forecastle.

Modernizations

1990s, both: - SPS-64 radar; + SPS-64(v)6 radar

Naval service

No significant events.