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Chaco 1980

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Neuquen (ex-Hickleton)	M1		Thornycroft, Woolston, UK	1954	26.1.1955	1955 // 9.1968	stricken 4.1997
Río Negro (ex-Tarlton)	M2		Doig, Grimsby, UK	1954	10.11.1954	1955 // 6.1968	stricken 4.1997
Chubut (ex-Santon)	M3		Fleetlands, Gosport, UK	1954	18.8.1955	1956 // 7.1968	stricken 1996
Tierra del Fuego (ex-Bevington, ex-Golden Aphis)	M4		White, Southampton, UK	13.9.1951	17.3.1953	10.4.1954 // 12.1968	stricken 1996
Chaco (ex-Rennington)	M5		Richards IW, Lowestoft, UK	1957	27.11.1958	1959 // 12.1969	stricken 2.2003
Formosa (ex-Ilmington)	M6		Camper & Nicholson, Gosport, UK	1953	8.3.1954	1954 // 7.1968	stricken 2.2003

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	360
Displacement full, t	425
Length, m	42.7 pp 46.3 oa
Breadth, m	8.80
Draught, m	2.50 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	M1-3, 5, 6: 2 Napier Deltic diesels M4: 2 Mirrlees diesels
Power, h. p.	M1-3, 5, 6: 3000 M4: 2500
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	diesel oil 45
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(8)
Armament	M1-4: 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 9, LL mechanical/magnetic/acoustic minesweeping gear M5, 6: 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 2 inflatable boats, diving equipment for 4 divers
Electronic equipment	M1-4: type 978 radar M5, 6: type 978 radar, type 193 sonar
Complement	29

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Project history

Former British Ton class coastal minesweepers. Chaco and Formosa were minehunters.

Modernizations

1990s, Chaco: - type 978 radar; + R-40XX radar

1990s, Formosa: - type 978 radar; + Furuno 1831 radar

Naval service

No significant events.