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Albatros 1972

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Mejillón (ex-Larchmont, ex-PC487)	P01		Consolidated SB, New York, USA	12.1941	28.2.1942	6.1942 // 14.5.1962	stricken 1976-77
Calamar (ex-Paragould, ex-PC566)	P02		Brown, Houston, USA	8.1941	21.3.1942	6.1942 // 14.7.1962	stricken 1976-77
Alcatraz (ex-Gilmer, ex-PC565)	P03		Brown, Houston, USA	8.1941	27.2.1942	4.1942 // 20.8.1962	stricken 1976-77
Albatros (ex-Lenoir, ex-PC582, ex-PC(C)582, ex-PC582)	P04		Albina, Portland, USA	2.1942	15.7.1942	10.1942 // 20.8.1962	stricken 1976-77
Petrel (ex-Minden, ex-PC1176)	P05		Leatham D. Smith SB, Sturgeon Bay, USA	6.1943	28.8.1943	11.1943 // 20.8.1962	stricken 1976-77
Caracol (ex-Kelso, ex-PC1170)	P06		Sullivan, Brooklyn, USA	7.1943	16.10.1943	2.1944 // 29.1.1963	stricken 1976-77
Pulpo (ex-Paragould, ex-PC465)	P07		Geo Lawley, Neponset, USA	8.1941	27.3.1942	5.1942 // 15.10.1963	stricken 1976-77
Camarón (ex-Rolla, ex-PC483)	P08		Consolidated SB, New York, USA	12.1940	25.10.1941	3.1942 // 15.10.1963	stricken 1976-77
Togogo (ex-Cooperstown, ex-PC484)	P09		Consolidated SB, New York, USA	4.1941	6.12.1941	4.1942 // 15.10.1963	stricken 1976-77
Gaviota (ex-Dalhart, ex-PC619)	P10		Geo Lawley, Neponset, USA	4.1942	15.8.1942	9.1942 // 15.10.1963	stricken 1976-77

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	350
Displacement full, t	430
Length, m	51.8 wl 52.9 oa
Breadth, m	7.06
Draught, m	3.29 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Fairbank-Morse diesels
Power, h. p.	2880
Max speed, kts	19
Fuel, t	diesel oil 49
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000 (12) - 4800 (12)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 4 DCT (provision for)
Electronic equipment	nav. radar, QHA sonar
Complement	59 - 65

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Project history

Former USN PC461 class submarine chasers.

Modernizations

None

Naval service

No significant events.