NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
DAR1, 2 DAR11 DAR21, 22 DAR31, 32 DAR41, 42 etc , 1939- LAS11-18 LAS21-26	USA, France: DAR1, 2, 11, 21, 22, 31, 32, 41, 42 etc	1937-1938: DAR1, 2, 11, 21, 22, 31, 32, 41, 42 etc	DAR1 (18.8.1938), LAS21 (1942)	none	1941: LAS22 1945-1947: LAS11-18, 21, 23-26

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	16 - 20
Displacement full, t
Length, m	13.0
Breadth, m	2.90
Draught, m	0.80
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 petrol engine
Power, h. p.	800
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	petrol 1.2
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	(1 - 2) x 1 - 7.7/87, DCR
Complement	7

Project history

Small wooden-hulled launches, differed mainly with type of installed petrol engines. Presumably, they were bought by Republican fleet at private boatbuididers of the USA and France in 1937-1938 and were armed in Spain. They received index DAR with two digits (the first digit designated a boat serial number, second the flotilla number). After 1939 survived DAR boats were commissioned by Nationalists and received new indexes LAS.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.