D-63 Méndez Núñez

Country: Spain

Class, [Type]: Gearing, [DD].

Builder: Consolidated Steel Corp, Orange, Texas, U.S.A.

Launch date: 22nd June 1945.

Commission date: 29th November 1945.

Decommission date: 3rd April 1992.

 Design by Antoni Casinos

Displacement ( tons ): 2.425 standard, 3.480 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 119 x 12,4 x 5,8

Main machinery: 2 x Westinghouse or GE turbines ( 60.000 hp ), 4 x Babcock Wilcox boilers.

Speed ( knots ): 34.

Range ( miles ): 4.800 at 15 knots.

Complement: 274 ( 17 officers ).

Guns: 4 x 127mm/38 ( 2 x double mountings ).

Torpedoes: 6 x Mk32 tubes ( two triple mountings ), 1 x ASROC launcher.

Radar: Search: SPS 37; Surface search: SPS 10; Fire Control: radar directed Mk37 Director.

Sonar: SQS 23, hull mounted.

Countermeasures: 2 x SRBOC Mk36, chaff and flare launchers; ESM/ECM: AN/WLR 1 ( warning ), ULQ-6 ( jammer ).

Helicopter: 1 x Hughes 500M.

Callsign: EBAZ ()

Comment: Ex - USS O´Hare ( DD 889 ). Transferred on 31st October 1973, and finally purchased on 1975.

Similar units: