Almirante Guise 1942
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Almirante Guise (ex-Lennuk, ex-Avtroil) | Bekker, Revel, Russia | 11/1913 | 13/1/1915 | 8/1917 // 7/1933 | stricken 5/1949 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1350 |
|
Displacement full, t |
2200 |
|
Length, m |
107.0 |
|
Breadth, m |
9.50 |
|
Draught, m |
4.10 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
Brown-Boveri steam turbines, 5 Normand boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
32700 |
|
Max speed, kts |
35 |
|
Fuel, t |
oil 350 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 1568(16) |
|
Armament |
5 x 1 - 102/60 (ru), 1 x 1 - 76/30 Lender, 3 x 3 - 450 TT, 80 mines |
|
Complement |
142 |
Ship project history: Former Russian Novik class destroyers. Almirante Villar was laid down as Kapitan Kingsbergen, 10/7/1915 renamed Kapitan 1 ranga Miklukho-Maklay, since 18/12/1918 Spartak; Almirante Guise was laid down as Avtroil. 27/12/1918 both destroyers were captured by British ships off Tallinn; 4/1/1919 they were commissioned by Navy of Estonia as Wambola and Lennuk; in April, 1933 they were sold to Peru on 410.000$ each and transferred to the Peruvian crews in Britain 8/7/1933. They arrived to Iquitos only in January, 1934 when the conflict with Colombia was already resolved by armistice signing, and as result passed to Callao, arriving there 5/7/1934.
Modernizations: 1941: + 3 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1939
Naval service: Almirante Guise was decommissioned in November, 1947. Her fragments are till now in scuttled condition off San Lorenzo naval base.
© Ivan Gogin, 2011