Venezuelan frigate General Moran (F-12) | |
Class overview | |
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Name | Almirante Clemente class |
Builders | Ansaldo Stabilimento Luigi Orlando, Livorno |
Operators | |
Preceded by | Captain class |
Completed | 9 |
Retired | 9 |
Preserved | 1 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Destroyer escort |
Displacement |
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Length | 99.1 m (325 ft) |
Beam | 10.8 m (35 ft) |
Draught | 3.7 m (12 ft) |
Propulsion | 2 Foster Wheeler boilers 650 psi (4.5 MPa), 850 °F (454 °C)), Parsons steam turbines, 2 shafts, 24,000 horsepower (18 MW) |
Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
Range | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
Complement | 162 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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The Almirante Clemente class of destroyer escorts is a class of warships built for several countries. The class was designed by Ansaldo for the Venezuelan Naval Forces, currently Venezuelan Navy, in the 1950s to complement its Nueva Esparta-class destroyer.
The Venezuelan Navy has 6 ships originally ordered, with Indonesia had two ships and Portugal had one ship of this design. In the Portuguese Navy, these ships are referred as patrol boats. In the 1950s Venezuelan Navy, the ships were classified as DLV (Destroyer Light Vessel) or light destroyers, in the 1980s were reclassified as ASW frigate, and are currently classified as coast guard vessels.
These ships include these notable characteristics:
The usage of the fin stabilizer is a weapons systems support device to stabilize the ship making it a more steady gun platform in rough seas. This can be tracked to HMS Bittern, most of the Hunt-class destroyers after refit have it, but the very first Battle-class destroyers HMS Finisterre and HMS Camperdown have it, even ships as HMS Amethyst have it, but do not use form higher consumption of power, according to several conversations lines in the Maritime History forum MARHST in the US navy ships as USS Gyatt (DD-712) have it.
The construction contracts for these destroyers were awarded on 25 January 1954, and their names were an homage to Venezuelan war of independence heroes who lie at Panteón Nacional:
Two destroyer escorts of similar design was built for Indonesian Navy by Ansaldo. Both were completed in May 1958. [5] They were never modernized and was stricken in 1978. [6] In comparison with its Venezuelan sisters, the Indonesian ships had lighter anti-aircraft armaments which consisted of three 20 mm in twin mounts. [5] They were named after National Hero of Indonesia:
Name | Hull No. | Shipyard ID | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | AA & ASW Refit | Weapons Refit | Coast Guard | Major maint. | Status | Decommissioned | Life Cycle |
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Almirante Clemente | D12 | 1491 | 5 May 1954 | 12 December 1954 | 4 April 1956 | N/A | 1968/75 | 1984/85 | 1986 | Dismantled | 2011 | >51,22 |
General Flores | D13 | 1493 | 5 May 1954 | 12 December 1954 | 1956 | N/A | 1968/75 | N/A | N/A | Sunk | 1978 | 22 |
General Moran | D22 | 1492 | 5 May 1954 | 12 December 1954 | 10 January 1957 | N/A | 1968/75 | 1984/85 | 1986 | Dismantled | 2009 | >51,12 |
Almirante Brión | D23 | 1496 | 12 December 1954 | 4 September 1955 | 1957 | 1962 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Sunk | 1978 | 22 |
General Austria | D32 | 1497 | 12 December 1954 | 4 September 1956 | 1957 | 1962 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Sunk | 1976 | 20 |
Almirante García | D33 | 1498 | 12 December 1954 | 12 October 1956 | 1957 | 1962 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Sunk | 1977 | 21 |
Name | Pennant No. | Laid down | Launched | Completed | Decommissioned |
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Imam Bondjol | 250 / 355 | 8 January 1956 | 5 May 1956 | 19 May 1958 | 1978 |
Surapati | 251 / 356 | 8 January 1956 | 5 May 1956 | 28 May 1958 | 1978 |
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