Antioquia 1934
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Antioquia (ex-Tejo) | Estaleiro Real de Lisboa | 10/5/1933 | 2/1934 | stricken 1961 | ||
| Caldas (ex-Douro) | Estaleiro Real de Lisboa | 18/11/1933 | 4/1934 | stricken 1961 |
|
Displacement standard, t |
1219 |
|
Displacement full, t |
1563 |
|
Length, m |
93.6 pp 98.5 oa |
|
Breadth, m |
9.44 |
|
Draught, m |
2.74 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
33000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
36 |
|
Fuel, t |
oil 292 |
|
Endurance, nm(kts) |
5400(15) |
|
Armament |
4 x 1 - 120/50 Armstrong Mk G, 3 x 1 - 40/39 pompom, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 20 mines, 2 DCT (12) |
|
Complement |
147 |
Ship project history: Two of seven Portuguese
Lima class destroyers, built in the Great Britain and Portugal under
Yarrow design. Still being on the stocks, two lead Portuguese-built ships were 27/3/1933
sold to Colombia at intermediary of British private concern as a backweight to two Peruvian
Novik class destroyers, purchased the same year in Estonia. Crews of both Colombian
ships were at first hired by the same firm from Englishmen. Ships arrived to Colombia 14/5/1934.
Destroyers were designed on a basis of British destroyer Ambuscade from which differed
by main artillery. Ships were arranged for minelaying.
Machinery included 3 Yarrow boilers with lateral arrangement of fire
chambers and economizers (28atm operating pressure) and Curtiss geared turbine
sets with Parsons cruising turbines.
Modernizations: 1942-1945, both: + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon
1952, Antioquia; 1955, Caldas: - 4 x 1 - 120/50, 3 x 1 - 40/39, 2 x 1 - 20/70, 1 x 4 - 533 TT; + 2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 6 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASRL, 4 DCT
Naval service: No significant events.
Caldas 1947
© Ivan Gogin, 2011