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Prestol Botello 1976

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Separación (ex-Skirmish), early 1976- Prestol Botello BM454, 1995- C454   Associated, Seattle, USA 4.1943 16.8.1943 6.1944 // 1.1965 stricken 2005
Tortuguero (ex-Signet) BM455, 1995- C455   Associated, Seattle, USA 4.1943 16.8.1943 6.1944 // 1.1965 hulk 1997


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

600

Displacement full, t

903

Length, m

54.9 wl 56.2 oa

Breadth, m

10.1

Draught, m

2.97

No of shafts2
Machinery

2 Cooper-Bessemer GSB-8 diesels

Power, h. p.1710
Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, tdiesel oil 260
Endurance, nm(kts)5600(9)
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 21, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10

Electronic equipment

SF or SO or SU radar

Complement96


Standard scale images


<i>Tortuguero </i>1970
Tortuguero 1970


Graphics


<i>Prestol Botello </i>1976
Prestol Botello 1976


Project history

Former USN Admirable class minesweepers, transferred without minesweeping gear, rated as corvettes, later as gunboats.

Modernizations

early 1980s, both: - 2 x 1 - 20/70, old radar; + SPS-69 radar

Naval service

No significant events.