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COMANDANTE PEDRO CAMPBELL corvette (1942/1966)


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Comandante Pedro Campbell 1971

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Comandante Pedro Campbell (ex-Chickadee) MSF1, 1976- 4, 1990- 24   Defoe, Bay City, USA 8.1941 20.7.1942 11.1942 // 8.1966 Antarctic supply ship 1990, patrol 1997, stricken 2002


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

890

Displacement full, t

1250

Length, m

65.5 wl 67.4 oa

Breadth, m

9.80

Draught, m

3.28 full load

No of shafts2
Machinery

2 electric motors, 4 Alco 539 diesel-generators

Power, h. p.2880
Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, tdiesel oil 200
Endurance, nm(kts)6370 (16.5)
Armament

2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 24

Electronic equipment2x radars
Complement

105



Standard scale images


<i>Comandante Pedro Campbell </i>1970
Comandante Pedro Campbell 1970


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<i>Comandante Pedro Campbell </i>1971
Comandante Pedro Campbell 1971


Project history

Former USN Auk class minesweepers, reclassified as corvette after transfer.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In 1990 Comandante Pedro Campbell was converted for service as a supply ship for the General Artigas Base in Antarctic in 1990 but in 1997 she had been rearmed and re-converted to patrol ship.