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Comandante Pedro Campbell 1971

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Comandante Pedro Campbell (ex-Chickadee)	MSF1, 1976- 4, 1990- 24		Defoe, Bay City, USA	8.1941	20.7.1942	11.1942 // 8.1966	Antarctic supply ship 1990, patrol 1997, stricken 2002

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	890
Displacement full, t	1250
Length, m	65.5 wl 67.4 oa
Breadth, m	9.80
Draught, m	3.28 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 electric motors, 4 Alco 539 diesel-generators
Power, h. p.	2880
Max speed, kts	18
Fuel, t	diesel oil 200
Endurance, nm(kts)	6370 (16.5)
Armament	2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 24
Electronic equipment	2x radars
Complement	105

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Project history

Former USN Auk class minesweepers, reclassified as corvette after transfer.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In 1990 Comandante Pedro Campbell was converted for service as a supply ship for the General Artigas Base in Antarctic in 1990 but in 1997 she had been rearmed and re-converted to patrol ship.