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CT Acre - D 10
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Class overview |
Name | Acre class |
Builders | Ilha das Cobas, Rio de Janeiro |
Operators | Brazilian Navy |
Preceded by | Marcílio Dias class |
Succeeded by | Pará class |
Built | 1940–1949 |
In commission | 1949–1974 |
Completed | 6 |
Retired | 6 |
General characteristics [1] |
Type | Destroyer |
Displacement |
- 1,340 long tons (1,360 t) standard
- 1,800 long tons (1,829 t) full load
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Length | 98.45 m (323 ft 0 in) oa |
Beam | 10.67 m (35 ft 0 in) |
Draught | 2.59 m (8 ft 6 in) |
Propulsion | 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 3 boilers 34,000 hp (25,000 kW) |
Speed | 35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h) |
Complement | 150 |
Armament | |
The Acre-class destroyers were a class of six destroyers built during World War II for the Brazilian Navy. None were completed before the end of the war. They are also referred to in some sources as the Amazonas class.
Built in Brazil to a modified British design along with some U.S. equipment, they were built to replace six H-class destroyers (or Jurua class) ordered from Britain but purchased by Britain for use in the war. Due to design complications, the ships took a long time to complete, having been finished from 1949 to 1951.
The ships received a refit in the early 1960s with new electronics and gun no. 2 being replaced by a 40mm Bofors mounting. Two ships were decommissioned in 1964 and the remaining four from 1973 to 1974.
The six ships were:
- ^ a b c d Whitley 2000, p. 22
- ^ Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 417.
- Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger, eds. (1980). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Whitley M.J. Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Cassell Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1-85409-521-8