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Álvares Cabral 2009  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Vasco da Gama	F330		Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany	1.2.1989	26.6.1989	18.1.1991	in service (2019)
Álvares Cabral	F331		Howaldtswerke, Kiel, Germany	2.6.1989	6.6.1990	24.5.1991	in service (2019)
Corte-Real	F332		Howaldtswerke, Kiel, Germany	20.10.1989	6.6.1990	22.11.1991	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2900
Displacement full, t	3330
Length, m	109.6 pp 115.9 oa
Breadth, m	13.8 wl 14.8 oa
Draught, m	4.10 hull 6.10 sonar
No of shafts	2
Machinery	CODOG: 2 General Electric LM-2500-30 gas turbines / 2 MTU 12V1163 TB83 diesels
Power, h. p.	53610 / 8840
Max speed, kts	32
Fuel, t	diesel / gas turbine oil 300
Endurance, nm(kts)	4900(18)
Armament	2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84C), 1 x 8 Sea Sparrow SAM (8 RIM-7M), 1 x 1 - 100/55 Mle 68, 1 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (Mk 46 Mod.5), 1 helicopter (Super Lynx Mk 95)
Electronic equipment	type 1007, DA-08, MW-08 Mod.3, 2x STIR 1.8, Mk 90 radars, SQS-510(v) sonar, APECS II, AR-700 ECM suites, 2x SRBOC Mk 36 decoy RL, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy, SEWACO, STACOS CCS
Complement	184

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Project history

On 25 July 1986 three MEKO 200P type frigates were ordered from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg and Howaldtswerke, Kiel. These were the ships finally chosen by the Portuguese Navy, after considering the Netherlands Kortenaer type and a Spanish proposal. The programme was 60% funded by a NATO consortium comprising the USA, Canada, West Germany, Norway and the Netherlands. Similar ships were built for Greece and Turkey. These ships give the Portuguese Navy its first seaborne aviation capability.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.