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Bauru 1952

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Bertioga (ex-DE175 Pennewill)	D16		Federal, Newark, USA	4.1943	8.8.1943	9/1943 // 8.1944	stricken 1964
Beberibe (ex-DE178 Herzog)	D17		Federal, Newark, USA	5.1943	5.9.1943	10/1943 // 8.1944	stricken 1968
Bracuí (ex-DE177 Reybold)	D18		Federal, Newark, USA	5.1943	22.8.1943	9/1943 // 8.1944	stricken 7.1972
Bauru (ex-DE179 McAnn)	D19		Federal, Newark, USA	5.1943	5.9.1943	10/1943 // 8.1944	stricken 9.1981
Baependi (ex-DE99 Cannon)	D20		Dravo, Wilmington, USA	11.1942	25.5.1943	9/1943 // 12.1944	stricken 1973
Benavente (ex-DE100 Christopher)	D21		Dravo, Wilmington, USA	12.1942	19.6.1943	10/1943 // 12.1944	stricken 1964
Babitonga (ex-DE101 Alger)	D22		Dravo, Wilmington, USA	1.1943	8.7.1943	11/1943 // 3.1945	stricken 1964
Bocaina (ex-DE174 Marts)	D23		Federal, Newark, USA	4.1943	8.8.1943	9/1943 // 3.1945	stricken 1975

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1253
Displacement full, t	1602
Length, m	91.4 wl 93.3 oa
Breadth, m	11.2
Draught, m	3.20 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 General Motors diesel-generators, 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	6000
Max speed, kts	21
Fuel, t	diesel oil 320
Endurance, nm(kts)	11500 (11)
Armament	3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20, 1 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 8 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (120)
Electronic equipment	SC, SF or SL or SU radars, QGA sonar
Complement	186

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Project history

American Cannon (DET) class destroyer escorts, transferred to Brazilian Navy after service under USN flag. Originally they carried hull numbers Be1-8, in 1955 changed to D16-23, in 1965 ships were re-rated as "ocean avizos" (patrol ships).

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Bauru in 1981-1982 was reconstructed into appearance of wartime and 21.7.1982 was opened as naval museum, having kept till now.