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AMAZONAS river gunboats (1935)


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Amazonas 1935

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Amazonas CF11, 1960- 11   Electric Boat, Groton, USA   1934 7/1935 in service (2019)
Loreto CF12, 1960- 12   Electric Boat, Groton, USA   1934 7/1935 in service (2019)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

250

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

44.1 pp 46.7 oa

Breadth, m

6.71

Draught, m

1.37

No of shafts2
Machinery2 diesels
Power, h. p.750
Max speed, kts

15.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)4000(10)
Armament

4 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94

Electronic equipmentnone
Complement35


Standard scale images


<i>Amazonas </i>1960
Amazonas 1960


Graphics


<i>Loreto </i>1997
Loreto 1997
<i>Amazonas </i>1935
Amazonas 1935
<i>Amazonas</i> 1999
Amazonas 1999


Project history

Built for service on upper Amazon. Boats differed from "classical" river gunboats by "laconic" outline profile, diesel machinery and DP guns.

Modernizations

1960s, both: - 2 x 1 - 76/50, 2 x 1 - 47/40, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94; + 4 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, radar

1980s: - old radar; + Furuno radar

Naval service

No significant events.