Country: Spain
Class, [Type]: Baleares, [FFG].
Builder: Bazán, El Ferrol, Spain.
Launch date: 21 November 1972.
Commission date: 10 November 1976.
Decommission date: 15 September 2006.

Displacement ( tons ): 3.350 standard, 4.177 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 133,6 x 14,3 x 7,8
Main machinery: 2 x Combustion Engineering V2M boilers; 1 x Westinghouse turbine ( 35.000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 28.
Range ( miles ): 4.500 at 20 knots.
Complement: 256 ( 15 officers ).

Guns: 1 x FMC 127mm/54 Mk42 Mod 9, 2 x FABA Meroka 2A3 CIWS 20mm/120, 2 x Browning 12,7mm.
Missiles:  SSM: 8 x McDonnell Douglas Harpoon ( but usually only carrying 4 ). SAM: 16 x GDC Pomona Standard SM-1MR, using a Mk22 launcher; A/S: 1 x Honeywell ASROC Mk16 octuple launcher.
Torpedoes: 4 x 324mm Mk 32. 24 x Honeywell Mk 46 Mod 5. 2 x 484mm Mk 32.

Radar: Air: Hughes SPS 52B, 3D, E/F bands; Surface: Raytheon SPS 10, G band; RAN 12L ( designator for Meroka ); TACAN: SRN 15A; Fire control: Mk68 Mod12 ( radar SPG-53C ) for gun and missiles, Mk74 ( radar SPG-51 ) for missiles. 4 x Sperry VPS-2 radars for Merokas ( gun directors ).
Sonar: Raytheon SQS 56 (DE 1160), SQS 35 VDS.
Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x FMC SRBOC Mk 36. Infrared flares and chaff launchers. FANFARE Towed torpedo decoy; ESM: Ceselsa Deneb; ECM: Ceselsa Canopus; ESM/ECM communications: Indra ELNATH; Prairie Masker hull and blade noise suppresion system.

Callsign: EBLT (     )
Homeport: El Ferrol.
Unit: 31st Squadron.

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 F71 Baleares
 F72 Andalucía
 F73 Cataluña
 F74 Asturias