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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Huesca (ex-Alessandro Poerio)			Ansaldo, Genoa, Italy	6.1913	4.8.1914	5.1915 // 10.1937	stricken 8.1953
Teruel (ex-Guglielmo Pepe)			Ansaldo, Genoa, Italy	7.1913	17.9.1914	8.1915 // 10.1937	stricken 1.1948

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	845
Displacement full, t	1216
Length, m	83.1 wl 85.0 oa
Breadth, m	8.00
Draught, m	2.80 normal 3.10 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Beluzzo steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	20000
Max speed, kts	31.5
Fuel, t	oil 200
Endurance, nm(kts)	2100(13)
Armament	Huesca: 5 x 1 - 102/45 Schneider-Canet 1917, 1 x 1 - 40/39 Vickers-Terni 1917, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 x 2 - 450 TT, 42 mines Teruel: 6 x 1 - 102/45 Schneider-Canet 1917, 2 x 1 - 40/39 Vickers-Terni 1917, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 x 2 - 450 TT, 42 mines
Complement	137

Standard scale images

Project history

Former Italian "esploratori" built during WWI, since 1.7.1921 classified as destroyers. They were bought from Italy by Spanish Nationalists Government in September, 1937, transferred to Spanish crews 27.10.1937. Unlike Melilla class, in National fleet were not masked. Hopelessly outdated and completely worn out ships, they nevertheless were actively enough used by Nationalists, despite regular accidents of machinery. 24.5.1938 they collided with each other at Palma (Mallorca), repair of Huesca at Cadiz has held 3 months, Teruel was under repair 5 months.

Modernizations

1938, Huesca: + 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/30

1938, Teruel: - 1 x 1 - 40/39; + 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/30

Naval service

After 1939 both served mainly as TSs.