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AMAZONAS river gunboats

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Amazonas CF11 Electric Boat, Groton, USA   1934 7/1935 active service (2011)
Loreto CF12 Electric Boat, Groton, USA   1934 7/1935 active service (2011)

 

Displacement standard, t

250

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

44.1 pp 46.7 oa

Breadth, m

6.71

Draught, m

1.37

No of shafts

2

Machinery

diesels

Power, h. p.

750

Max speed, kts

15.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 4000(10)

Armament

4 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94

Complement

35

Ship project history: Built for service on upper Amazon. Boats differed from "classical" river gunboats by "laconic" outline profile, diesel machinery and DP guns.

Modernizations: 1960s, both: - 3 x 1 - 76/50, 2 x 1 - 47/40, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94; + 3 x 1 - 40/60 Bofors Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon

Naval service: Both ships are in active service (2011).

Amazonas 1935

Amazonas 1999

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