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     A-520 Sagres     
Country: Portugal Portugal
Class, [Type]: [AXT].
Builder: Blohm + Voss, Hamburg, Germany.
Launch date: 30 October 1937.
Commission date: 02 February 1962.

Displacement ( tons ): 1.725 standard, 1.940 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 90 x 11,9 x 5,3
Main machinery: 2 x MTU 12V183 TE92 diesels ( 750 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 18 ( under sail ).
Complement: 162 ( 12 officers ) + ? cadets.

Guns: 2 x 47mm saluting guns.

Radar: Navigation: 2 x Decca ?.

Callsign: CTEC ( Charlie Tango Echo Charlie )
Comment: Ex - Guanabara, Ex - Albert Leo Schlageter. Acquired by the US Navy after WWII, then sold to Brazil in 1948. Sold again to Portugal in 1962. Sister ships are USCG´s Eagle, Germany´s Gorch Fock, Romania´s Mircea and Russian Tovarisch. Refitted and re-engined in 1992. In service since 1st February 1938.

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