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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 shafts	2
Machinery	2 Cooper-Bessemer GSB-8 diesels
Power, h. p.	1710
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	diesel 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
Complement	96

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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.