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CARABOBO corvettes (1940-1941/1945-1946)


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Victoria 1953

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Constitución (ex-Algoma)     Port Arthur, Canada 6.1940 17.12.1940 7.1941 // 6.1945 discarded 1962
Federación (ex-Amherst)     St. John, Canada 5.1940 4.12.1940 8.1941 // 1946 discarded 1956
Libertad (ex-Battleford)     Collingwood, Canada 9.1940 15.4.1941 7.1941 // 1946 wrecked 12.4.1949
Independencia (ex-Dunvegan)     Marine Industries, Sorel, Canada 8.1940 11.12.1940 9.1941 // 1946 discarded 1953
Carabobo (ex-Kamsack)     Port Arthur, Canada 11.1940 5.5.1941 10.1941 // 1945 lost 1946
Patria (ex-Oakville)     Port Arthur, Canada 12.1940 21.6.1941 11.1941 // 1946 discarded 1962
Victoria (ex-Wetaskiwin)     Burrard, Vancouver, Canada 4.1940 18.7.1940 12.1940 // 1946 discarded 1962


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

950

Displacement full, t

1280

Length, m

57.9 pp 62.5 oa

Breadth, m

10.1

Draught, m

4.80 deep load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

2750

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, t

oil 230

Endurance, nm(kts)

3500(12)

Armament

1 x 1 - 102/45 BL Mk IX, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (72)

Electronic equipment

type 271 or type 286 (some) radars, type 123 sonar

Complement

109



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<i>Victoria </i> 1953
Victoria 1953


Project history

RCN Flower-type corvettes, transferred after war.

Modernizations

early 1950s, all: - 2 x 1 - 20/70; + 1 x 1 - 76/40 HA/LA Mk 9

Naval service

Carabobo was lost in 1946 on passage from Canada. Libertad ran aground off Western Venezuela and wrecked 12.4.1949.