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     D-24 Alcalá Galiano     

Photo byJosé Antonio Alcalá Vaz, Cartagena
Country: Spain.
Builder: Todd Pacific Shipyards, Washington, U.S.A.
Launch date: 14 February 1944.
Commission date: 03 November 1960.
Decommission date: 15 December 1988.

Displacement ( tons ): 2.080 standard, 2.750 normal, 3.050 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 114,8 x 12,6 x 5,5
Main machinery: 2 x Westinghouse turbines ( 60.000 hp ), 4 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers.
Speed ( knots ): 35.
Range ( miles ): 5.000 at 15 knots.
Complement: 290 ( 17 officers ).

Guns: 4 x 127mm/38 Mk30, 6 x 76mm/50 Mk33 ( three double mountings ).
Torpedoes: 3 x 533mm. ; 2 x Mk11 Hedgehogs; 1 x depth charge rack.

Radar: Search: SPS 6C; Tactical: SPS 10; Fire Control: Radar controlled Mk37 directors. Mk56 director with Mk35 radar. Mk63 director with SPG34 radar for 76mm. Guns.
Sonar: hull mounted, SQS 29 or SQS 32. Originally had a SQS 4.
Countermeasures: ESM: AN/WLR 1; Decoys: Mk6 Fanfare.

Comment: Ex - USS Jarvis ( DD 799 ). Comissioned for the US Navy on 3 June 1944. Transferred at Philadelphia to the Spanish Navy on 3 November 1960. Purchased by the spanish government on 1 October 1972.
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