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Durango 1936

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Durango	B1, 1993- B01		UN de Levante, Valencia, Spain	10.1933	28.7.1935	7.1936	TS 1982, preserved 2001
Zacatecas			Echavarietta y Larrinaga, Cadiz, Spain	11.1933	27.8.1934	8.1938 // ---	requisitioned incomplete by Spain 1936 (Calvo Sotelo)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1600
Displacement full, t	2000
Length, m	86.0 pp 92.4 oa
Breadth, m	12.2
Draught, m	3.05
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	6500
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	oil 400
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(15)
Armament	2 x 1 - 102/45 Vickers Mk LA, 2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 2 - 25/60 Hotchkiss, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76
Military load	490 troops, 80 horses
Complement	141

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Project history

Further development of idea of multipurpose ship, included in Guanajuato class. At expense of some hull increasing, introduction of extended forecastle and decreasing of armament, capacity was raised twice, to 490 infantrymen and 80 horses with landing and unlanding through two sideports. Number of 102mm guns was shrank to two, but two additional 57mm guns were installed abreast funnel. Machinery structure remained unchanged, but for preservation of 20kts speed machinery power was raised to 6500hp. Sister-ships Durango and Zacatecas were ordered to Spanish builders in 1932. Officially they were classified as military transports (Transporte de Guerra). Durango was commissioned in 1936; Zacatecas outfitted in 1936, was requisitioned by National government of Spain and in 1938 was commissioned by Franco`s fleet as Calvo Sotelo, though officially it was issued only 30.5.1938.

Modernizations

1942: - 2 x 2 - 25/60; + 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 DCT

1967: machinery was replaced by 2 Enterprise DMR-38 diesel-generators, 2 electric motors (5000hp, 18kts, 3000(12)kts with max 140t of diesel oil); + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, radars

Naval service

In post-war years Durango was repeatedly updated; she served till 2001, when she was preserved at Masatlan as memorial.