Aragua | |
Class overview | |
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Name | Nueva Esparta class |
Builders | Vickers Armstrongs Shipyards, Barrow-in-Furness |
Operators | Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela |
Built | 1951-1956 |
In commission | 1953-1978 |
Planned | 3 |
Completed | 3 |
Retired | 3 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 402 ft (123 m) |
Beam | 43 ft (13 m) |
Draught | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | Parsons steam turbines |
Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Range | 10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 18 officers and 236 crew members |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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The Nueva Esparta-class destroyers were a class of destroyers used by the navy of Venezuela. The lead ship was named after Nueva Esparta (Spanish for "New Sparta"), one of the states of Venezuela.
These ships were ordered in 1950, and were built by the Vickers-Armstrongs shipyards in Barrow-in-Furness between 1951 and 1954.
The ships were designed by Vickers-Armstrong shipyards in the 1950s for the Venezuela naval forces. The design has been identified as a derivative of the Batch 3 Battle-class destroyers built for the United Kingdom and Australia, according to information released by the International Naval Research Organization and several independent researchers in 2006. They were to form part of a fleet that included a 25,000 ton aircraft carrier and a Tiger-class cruiser.
The fleet arrangement for 30/04/1949 covers:
The names assigned to these ships were associated with states in Venezuela.
Code | Name | Shipyard ID. | Keel date | Launch date | Commissioned | Repair | Weapons refit | Major maint | Status | Decommissioned | Life cycle |
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D11 | Nueva Esparta | 1009 | 24/07/1951 | 19/11/1952 | 08/12/1953 | 1959 | 1960 | 1968/69 | Sunk | 1978 | 25,08 |
D21 | Zulia | 1010 | 24/07/1951 | 29/06/1953 | 14/02/1956 | 1959 | 1960 | N/A | Floating museum - sunk | 1983 | 29,32 |
D31 | Aragua | 1036 | 29/06/1953 | 27/01/1955 | 14/02/1956 | 1959 | N/A | N/A | Sunk | 1975 | 19,89 |
Model | Max range | Abilities | Notes |
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FH-4 | 500 | Surface and aerial search, bearing, and classification data | Passive RWR/ESM/SIGINT |
Tipo 162 | 1 | Search, bearing, and range data | Active sonar |
Type 170 | 3 | Search, bearing & range data | Active sonar |
Type 177 | 3 | Search, bearing & range data | Active/passive radar |
Type 275 fc | 16 | Surface & aerial search in surface, bearing and classification, range & altitude data | Radar |
Type 293 | 45 | Surface & aerial search in surface, bearing and range data, IFF | Radar |
Type 974 | 25 | Surface & aerial search in surface, bearing and range data | Radar |
Mount | Rate of Fire | Capacity | Weapons per mount |
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8 x twin mounting 40mm L/60 Bofors | 120 | 800 | 16 x 40mm/60 twin double Bofors (max 16) |
2 x Mark 4 Squid | 180 | 3 | 3 x MK4 Squid (max 3) |
3 x 4.5 inch (113 mm) L/45 Vickers Mark V in BD Mark IV twin mounting | 18 | 900 | 3 x 114mm/45 Vickers MK IV Twin (max 6) |
Magazines | Rate of Fire | Armor | Capacity | Stores |
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4.5 in (114 mm) | 18 | Light | 900 | 900 |
MK4 Squid | 15 | None | 20 | 20 |
40mm | 120 | None | 800 | 800 |
Name | Type | Range | Channels | Description |
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HF | Radio | 300 | 10 | HF secure |
VHF | Radio | 100 | 10 | VHF secure |
UHF | Radio | 100 | 10 | UHF secure |
HF | Radio | 300 | 10 | HF plain |
VHF | Radio | 100 | 10 | VHF plain |
UHF | Radio | 100 | 10 | UHF plain |
Signature Type | Front | Side | Rear |
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Passive sonar | 95 | 96 | 97 |
Active sonar | 16 | 27 | 17 |
Visual | 110 | 151 | 110 |
IR | —12 | 67 | 18 |
Radar | 71 | 140 | 71 |
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