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Country: Spain Spain
Class, [Type]: Terrebonne Parish, [LST].
Builder: Christy Corporation, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Launch date: 15 June 1954.
Commission date: 17 May 1978.
Decommission date: 31 March 1995.

Displacement ( tons ): 2.590 standard, 5.800 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 117,1 x 16,8 x 5,2
Main machinery: 4 x General Motors 16-278A diesels ( 6.000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 15.
Range ( miles ): 15.000 at 9 knots.
Complement: 153.

Guns: 6 x 76 mm/50 ( 3 double mountings ).
Military lift: 395 troops; 10 tanks Mk 48; 17 LVTPs; 3 LCVPs; 1 LCP.

Radar: Surface: Racal Decca TM 1229, I band; Navigation: Decca, I band; Fire Control: 2 Western Electric SPG 34, I/J bands.

Comment: Former USS-Wexford County LST-1168. Transferred by the US Navy the 29th of octuber 1971.
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