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Parana 1978

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Pará (ex-Guest)	D27		Boston N Yd, Charlestown, USA	9/1941	20.2.1942	12/1942 // 5.6.1959	discarded 1978
Paraiba (ex-Bennett)	D28		Boston N Yd, Charlestown, USA	12/1941	16.4.1942	2/1943 // 15.12.1959	discarded 1978
Parana (ex-Cushing)	D29		Bethlehem, Staten I, Port Richmond, USA	5.1943	30.9.1943	1/1944 // 20.7.1961	discarded 1982
Pernambuco (ex-Hailey)	D30		Seattle-Tacoma, Seattle, USA	4.1942	9.3.1943	9/1943 // 20.7.1961	discarded 1982
Piauí (ex-Lewis Hancock)	D31		Federal, Kearny, USA	3/1943	1.8.1943	9/1943 // 2.8.1967	discarded 1989
Santa Catharina (ex-Irwin)	D32		Bethlehem, San Pedro, USA	5/1943	31.10.1943	2/1944 // 10.5.1968	discarded 1978
Maranhão (ex-Shields)	D33		Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton, USA	8/1943	25.9.1944	2/1945 // 1.7.1972	discarded 1990

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2325
Displacement full, t	3005
Length, m	112.5 wl 114.7 oa
Breadth, m	12.1
Draught, m	4.19 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	38
Fuel, t	oil 492
Endurance, nm(kts)	6500 (15)
Armament	D27, 29: 5 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 5 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 7 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 - 324 TC, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 1 DCR D28: 5 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 3 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 4 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 24, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 1 DCR D30: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 3 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 1 DCR D31: 5 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 3 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 4 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 24, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 1 DCR D32: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 3 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 1 DCR D33: 5 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 5 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 7 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 1 DCR
Electronic equipment	SPS-6, SPS-10, Mk 25 radars, SQS-4, SQS-29 or SQS-32 sonar
Complement	273

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Project history

Former Fletcher class destroyers of US Navy.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.