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Uruguay 1980

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Uruguay (ex-Baron)	DE1		Federal, Newark, USA	11.1942	9.5.1943	7/1943 // 5.1952	deleted 1990
Artigas (ex-Bronstein)	DE2		Federal, Newark, USA	8.1943	14.11.1943	12/1943 // 3.1952	deleted 1988

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1253
Displacement full, t	1602
Length, m	91.4 wl 93.3 oa
Breadth, m	11.2
Draught, m	3.20 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 General Motors diesel-generators, 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	6000
Max speed, kts	21
Fuel, t	diesel oil 320
Endurance, nm(kts)	11500 (11)
Armament	3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 8 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (120)
Electronic equipment	SC, SF or SL or SU radars, QGA sonar
Complement	186

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Project history

Former USN Cannon class destroyer escorts.

Modernizations

late 1960s, both: - 4 x 1 - 20/70, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, SC, SF or SL or SU radars, QGA sonar; + SPS-5, SPS-6C radars, SQS-4 sonar.

early 1980s, both: - 1 x 1 - 20/70, 8 DCT, 2 DCR, SQS-4 sonar

early 1980s, Uruguay: - SPS-6C radar

Naval service

No significant events.