Eugenio´s Warships - D-36 Ariete

Country: Spain Spain

Class, [Type]: Audaz, [DD].

Builder: Bazán, El Ferrol, Spain.

Launch date: 24 February 1955.

Commission date: 07 February 1961.

Decommission date: 25 February 1966.

Displacement ( tons ): 1.450 at full load, 1.550 at full load after modernisation.

Dimensions ( metres ): 94 x 9,5 x 3,6

Main machinery: 3 x La Seyne boilers, 2 x Rateau-Bretagne turbines ( 30.800 hp ), 2 x propellers.

Speed ( knots ): 32.

Range ( miles ): 3.800 at 14 knots.

Complement: 199 ( 13 officers ).

Guns: 2 x Rheinmetall 105mm, 4 x 37mm/80 (2x2), 8 x 20mm (2x4); After modernisation: 2 x Mk34 76mm/50, 2 x Bofors 40mm/70.

Torpedoes: 6 x 533mm tubes ( 2 x 3 tube launchers ); After modernisation: 6 x 324mm ( 2 x Mk32 launchers ).

Mines: 30 x mines ( removed after modernisation ).

A/S Mortars: 4 x mortars, 6 x depth charges racks; After modernisation: 2 x Mk11 Hedgehogs, 8 x Mk6 mortars, 2 x Mk9 depth charges racks.

Military lift: 290 tm fuel.

Radar: Air: 1 x MLA-1b, 2-D; Surface: 1 x SPS-5B; Fire Control: 1 x SPG-34 ( 76mm guns ).

Sonar: 1 x QHB-a.

Comment: Based on the french Le Fier class. Lost in accident after grounding near Carnota (Galicia, Spain) on 25th February 1966.

Similar units:

D31 Audaz