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Recalde

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Recalde			SECN, Cartagena	1909	31.12.1910	1911	discarded 1931
Laya			SECN, Cartagena	11.1909	3.8.1911	12.1911	sunk 15.6.1938
Bonifaz			SECN, Cartagena	1910	1911	1911	discarded 1931
Lauria			SECN, Cartagena	12.1910	3.4.1912	8.1912	stricken 5.1940

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	787
Displacement full, t	811
Length, m	65.5
Breadth, m	9.14
Draught, m	2.98 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	1200
Max speed, kts	13.5
Fuel, t	coal 160
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(10)
Armament	4 x 1 - 76/50 Vickers Mk TR
Complement	130

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Project history

Four ships of this class were built for colonial service under the law from 7.1.1908. Weak unsuccessful ships with low stability, used basically as patrols.

Modernizations

1937, Laya: + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon M36

Naval service

After beginning of Civil war Laya at Tangiers was transferred under Republican control. Gunboat was sunk by aircraft of Nationalists at Valencia 15.6.1938. She was salvaged 28.2.1940, stricken 13.3.1940 and sold for scrap. Lauria was captured by troops of Nationalists at Cadiz 21.7.1936 and commissioned by them. 8.5.1940 Lauria was stricken and converted to a hulk at Cartagena.