Nueva Esparta-class destroyer

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Class overview
Name	Nueva Esparta class
Builders	Vickers Armstrongs Shipyards, Barrow-in-Furness
Operators	Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela
Built	1951-1956
In commission	1953-1978
Planned	3
Completed	3
Retired	3
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	Standard: 2,600 tons Full load: 3,670 tons
Length	402 ft (123 m)
Beam	43 ft (13 m)
Draught	19 ft (5.8 m)
Installed power	2 Foster Wheeler boilers (650 psi, 850 °F) 50,000 shp (37,000 kW)
Propulsion	Parsons steam turbines
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	18 officers and 236 crew members
Sensors and processing systems	Radar Type 293Q target indication Radar Type 291 air warning Radar Type 274 navigation Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mk.VI Radar Type 262 fire control on director CRBF and STAAG Mk.II
Armament	6 × QF 4.5 in (114 mm)/45 Mark V guns in 3 twin BD Mark IV mountings 8 × 40 mm/60 Bofors A/A cannons in 4 twin STAAG Mk.II mounts 8 × 40 mm/60 Bofors A/A cannons in 4 twin Mk.V mounts 3 × Torpedo tubes for 21 in (533 mm) Mk.IX torpedoes in 1 triple mount 1 × 'Squid A/S mortar

The Nueva Esparta-class destroyers were a class of destroyers used by the navy of Venezuela. The lead ship was named after Nueva Esparta (Spanish for "New Sparta"), one of the states of Venezuela.

These ships were ordered in 1950, and were built by the Vickers-Armstrongs shipyards in Barrow-in-Furness between 1951 and 1954.