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Aragua 1969

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Nueva Esparta D11   Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK 24.7.1951 19.11.1952 8.12.1953 discarded 1978
Zulia D21   Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK 24.7.1951 29.6.1953 15.9.1954 discarded 1978
Aragua D31   Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK 29.6.1953 27.1.1955 14.2.1956 discarded 1975


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

2600

Displacement full, t3300
Length, m

117.1 wl 122.5 oa

Breadth, m

13.1

Draught, m

3.90 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

50000

Max speed, kts

34.5

Fuel, t

oil

Endurance, nm(kts)5000(11)
Armament

3 x 2 - 114/45 UD Mk 6, 4 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 5, 4 x 2 - 40/60 STAAG Mk 2, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 2 DCR

Electronic equipmenttype 262, type 274, type 275, type 291, type 293Q radars, type 162, type 170, type 177 sonars
Complement

254



Standard scale images


<i>Zulia </i>1958
Zulia 1958
<i>Nueva Esparta </i>1970
Nueva Esparta 1970


Graphics


<i>Aragua </i>1969
Aragua 1969
<i>Nueva Esparta </i>1970
Nueva Esparta 1970


Project history

Specifically designed for tropical operations, air conditioned and quite spacious. The single uptake and stack serviced the two independent engine and boiler rooms.

Modernizations

1960, Nueva Esparta: - type 274, type 291, type 293Q radars; + 2 x 3 - 305 Squid Mk 4 ASWRL, SPS-12, SPS-6, type 276 radars

1960, Zulia, 1965, Aragua: - type 274, type 291, type 293Q radars; + 2 x 3 - 305 Squid Mk 4 ASWRL, SPS-12, AWS-2, type 276 radars

1969, Nueva Esparta: - 4 x 2 - 40/60 STAAG Mk 2, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 5, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 x 3 - 305 Squid ASWRL; + 2 x 4 Seacat GWS20 SAM (16 Seacat), 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL

Naval service

No significant events.