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ETHIOPIA training frigate (1944/1962)


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  Ethiopia 1972  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
ኢትዮጵያ [Ethiopia] (ex-Orca) A01   Lake Washington, Houghton, USA 13.7.1942 4.10.1942 23.1.1944 // 1.1962 escaped to Yemen 1991, hulk


Technical data


Displacement standard, t1766
Displacement full, t2800
Length, m

91.4 wl 94.7 oa

Breadth, m

12.5

Draught, m

4.10 full load

No of shafts2
Machinery

4 Fairbanks-Morse 38D81/8x10 diesel-generators, 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

6080

Max speed, kts

18.2

Fuel, tdiesel oil 260
Endurance, nm(kts)6000 (12)
Armament

1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3

Electronic equipmentSPS-12, Mk 26, nav. radars
Complement

215



Standard scale images


<i>Ethiopia </i>1963
Ethiopia 1963


Graphics


  <i>Ethiopia</i> 1972  
  Ethiopia 1972  


Project history

Former USN Barnegat class seaplane tender, converted before transfer to TS and became the flagship of the Ethiopian Navy.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

: Ethiopia escaped to Yemen in 1991 after Eritrea became independent. She was hulked soon after arriving to Yemen and sold for scrap in 1993.