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  Ethiopia 1972  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
ኢትዮጵያ [Ethiopia] (ex-Orca)	A01		Lake Washington, Houghton, USA	13.7.1942	4.10.1942	23.1.1944 // 1.1962	escaped to Yemen 1991, hulk

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1766
Displacement full, t	2800
Length, m	91.4 wl 94.7 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	4.10 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 Fairbanks-Morse 38D81/8x10 diesel-generators, 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	6080
Max speed, kts	18.2
Fuel, t	diesel oil 260
Endurance, nm(kts)	6000 (12)
Armament	1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3
Electronic equipment	SPS-12, Mk 26, nav. radars
Complement	215

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Project history

Former USN Barnegat class seaplane tender, converted before transfer to TS and became the flagship of the Ethiopian Navy.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

: Ethiopia escaped to Yemen in 1991 after Eritrea became independent. She was hulked soon after arriving to Yemen and sold for scrap in 1993.