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AYACUCHO motor patrol boats (1942-1943/1944)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

Ayacucho (ex-CG83349)

Boyacá (ex-CG83433)

Wheeler, Brooklyn, USA: Ayacucho, Boyacá

1942 // 8.1944: Ayacucho

1943 // 12.1944: Boyacá

none

none

late 1940s: Ayacucho, Boyacá


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

45 trials

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

25.3

Breadth, m

4.88

Draught, m

1.37

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

20.5

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 4 DCR

Electronic equipmentmany boats: SO radar, sonar
Complement

10



Standard scale images


<i>Ayacucho </i>1945
Ayacucho 1945


Project history

USCG launches of 83ft type, transferred to Colombia in 1944.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.