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Almirante Villar 1935

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Almirante Villar (ex-Wambola, ex-Спартак [Spartak], ex-Капитан 1 ранга Миклухо-Маклай [Kapitan 1 ranga Miklukho-Maklay])			Putilov, St. Petersburg, Russia	11.1914	27.8.1915	12.1917 // 7.1933	training hulk 1952

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1260
Displacement full, t	1620
Length, m	98.0
Breadth, m	9.34
Draught, m	3.90
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Brown-Boveri steam turbines, 4 Vulkan boilers
Power, h. p.	31500
Max speed, kts	34
Fuel, t	oil 350
Endurance, nm(kts)	1800(16)
Armament	4 x 1 - 102/60 (ru), 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, 3 x 3 - 450 TT, 80 mines
Complement	142

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Project history

Former Russian Novik class destroyers. Almirante Villar was laid down as Kapitan Kingsbergen, 10.7.1915 renamed Kapitan 1 ranga Miklukho-Maklay, since 18.12.1918 Spartak; Almirante Guise was laid down as Avtroil. 27.12.1918 both destroyers were captured by British ships off Tallinn; 4.1.1919 they were commissioned by Navy of Estonia as Wambola and Lennuk; in April, 1933 they were sold to Peru on 410.000$ each and transferred to the Peruvian crews in Britain 8.7.1933. They arrived to Iquitos only in January, 1934 when the conflict with Colombia was already resolved by armistice signing, and as result passed to Callao, arriving there 5.7.1934.

Modernizations

1941: + 3 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1939

Naval service

Almirante Villar during revolution in October, 1948 received serious damages of underwater hull part and steam coolers, then she was in 1952 transferred to naval school as training hulk.