BAP Palacios (DM-73)

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BAP Palacios (DM-73)
History
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Class and type: Daring class destroyer
Name: HMS Diana
Builder: Yarrow and Co. Ltd, Glasgow
Laid down: April 3, 1947
Launched: May 8, 1952
Commissioned: March 29, 1954
Fate: Sold to Peruvian Navy on 1969
Flag of Peru (state).svg Peru
Name:Palacios
Commissioned: April 1973
Decommissioned: 1993
Homeport: Callao
General characteristics
Displacement:
  • 2,819 tonnes standard
  • 3,592 tonnes full load
Length: 121.60 m (399.0 ft)
Beam: 13.10 m (43.0 ft)
Draught: 5.50 m (18.0 ft)
Draft: 4.60 m (15.1 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
  • 2 English Electric geared steam turbines
  • 2 shafts; 54,800 shp (40,900 kW)
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Range: 3,500 nm at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement: 205 (17 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • 1 Plessey AWS-1 early warning
  • 1 Thomson-CSF Triton surface search
  • 1 RTN-10X fire control
  • 1 Decca 1226 navigation
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
F0417-501 intercept
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 AB-212ASW helicopter
Aviation facilities: Telescopic hangar for 1 medium helicopter.

BAPPalacios(DM-73) was a Daring class destroyer in service with the Peruvian Navy. She was completed for the Royal Navy in 1954 as HMS Diana. After being decommissioned she was sold to Peru in 1969 together with her sistership HMS Decoy. She was renamed after Enrique Palacios, a war hero who fought at the Battle of Angamos during the War of the Pacific.

Prior to entering service with the Peruvian Navy she underwent a major refit by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead between 1970 and 1973. Work done during this refit included the following:

After its rebuild, Palacios was commissioned into the Peruvian Navy on April 1973. Further work was done on the ship by SIMA dockyards in Callao as follows: [1]

After serving in two navies for 39 years, Palacios was decommissioned in 1993. [2]

Notes

  1. Couhat, Combat Fleets of the World, p. 459.
  2. Baker, The Naval Institute Guide, p. 551.

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