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CARVALHO ARAUJO sloop (1915/1920)


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Carvalho Araujo 1933

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Carvalho Araujo (ex-Jonquil)     Connell, Scotstoun, UK 1915 12.5.1915 6.1915 // 5.1920 survey vessel 1937


Technical data


Displacement normal, t1200
Displacement full, t1275
Length, m

76.2 pp 80.0 oa

Breadth, m

10.1

Draught, m

3.40

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

1800

Max speed, kts

16.5

Fuel, t

coal 375

Endurance, nm(kts)

5000(15)

Armament

2 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 2 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II, 4 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 DCT

Complement

137



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<i>Carvalho Araujo </i> 1933
Carvalho Araujo 1933


Project history

Former British Flower class sloop built in days of WWI, bought by Portugal in 1920 and rearmed. Rated as 2nd class aviso.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Charvalho Araujo in 1937 was converted to survey vessel and served till 1959.