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Oquendo on trials

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Oquendo	D41		Bazán, Ferrol	15.6.1951	5.9.1956	13.9.1960	stricken 1978
Roger de Lauria	D42		Bazán, Ferrol	4.9.1951	12.11.1958	---	completed under revised design
Marqués de la Ensenada	D43		Bazán, Ferrol	4.9.1951	15.7.1959	---	completed under revised design

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2050
Displacement full, t	2765
Length, m	110.8 pp 116.5 oa
Breadth, m	11.1
Draught, m	3.60 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Rateau-Bretagne geared steam turbines, 3 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	39
Fuel, t	oil 659
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000(15)
Armament	3 x 2 - 120/50 NG53, 6 x 1 - 40/70 SP48, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 - 324 TC, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL
Electronic equipment	as in 1963: type 262P, type 275M, type 293Q, SNW-10 radars, QHBa sonar
Complement	267

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Project history

Nine units of this class, based on the pre-war French Le Hardi class, were ordered in 1947-1948, but six, Blas de Lezo, Blasco de Garay, Bonifaz, Gelmirez, Langara and Recalde, were cancelled in 1953. The 8 105mm guns (4x2), 7 533mm torpedo tubes (1x3+2x2) and 2 DC throwers originally planned were replaced by the 120mm guns and ASW weapons. Trials of Oquendo showed a dangerous lack of stability, so she was taken in hand for ballasting and reduction of top weight. This work was completed on 22 April 1963. British radars and fire-control equipment were installed. Two following ships were dismantled and completed to a such altered and enlarged design.

Modernizations 4.

1963: new data became: 2582/3005t, 116.5x11.1x3.80m, 32.4kts; - 1 x 2 - 120/50 ('X'), 4 x 1 - 20/70

Naval service

No significant events.