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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, t	3300
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 equipment	type 262, type 274, type 275, type 291, type 293Q radars, type 162, type 170, type 177 sonars
Complement	254

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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.