Oquendo-class destroyer

Marqués de la Ensenada at Cartagena, Spain
Class overview
BuildersBazán, Ferrol, Galicia
Operators Spanish Navy
Preceded byLepanto class
Succeeded byChurruca class
Built1951–1970
In commission1963–1988
Planned9
Completed3
Cancelled6
Scrapped3
General characteristics
TypeDestroyer
Displacement3004 ton
Length116.5 m (382 ft)
Beam
  • Original: 11 m (36 ft)
  • Modernized: 13 m (43 ft)
Draught
  • Original: 5 m (16 ft)
  • Modernized: 5.8 m (19 ft)
Propulsion
  • 3 Bretagne steam boilers
  • 2 Rateau turbines
  • 2 propellers
Speed
  • Original: 32.5 kn (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
  • Modernized: 31 kn (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Range3,200 nmi (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement
  • Original: 252
  • Modernized: 318
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Original
    • Radar:
    • Sonar:
      • QHB scanning sonar
    • Fire Control:
      • Vickers-Armstrong with radar type 275M (120 mm)
      • Vickers-Armstrong with radar type 262P (40 mm)
  • Modernized
    • Radar:
      • SPS-40A 2-D, air
      • AN/SPS-10F, surface
    • Sonar:
      • AN/SQS-32
      • AN/SQA-10 variable depth (VDS)
    • Fire Control:
Electronic warfare
& decoys		Modernized: AN/WLR-1
Armament
  • Original:
  • Modernized:
    • 6 127 mm/38 cal. DP cannon (3x2)
    • 2 Mk44 324 mm (12.8 in)
Aircraft carriedHughes 369[1]
Aviation facilitieshangar and landing pad for ASW helicopter

The Oquendo-class destroyers was a class of three destroyers built for the Spanish Navy. The nine initially projected Oquendo-class destroyers were the most ambitious project fronted by the programs of naval construction of the post-war period in Spain; however, the adoption of Rateau/Bretagne propulsion system, being of a low reliability and high complexity, coupled with the limited capacity of the shipbuilding industry in Spain at the time, led to one of the largest investor fiascos of the Spanish Navy in the 20th century. These ships would be assigned the names and numbers of; D-41 Oquendo, D-42 Roger de Lauria, and D-43 Marqués de la Ensenada.

They were named after Admiral Antonio de Oquendo.

  1. ^ "Destructor construido en España y adaptado al modelo norteamericano Fram-II" [Destroyer built in Spain and adapted to the North American model Fram-II]. El País (in Spanish). 3 November 1981. Archived from the original on 30 June 2012.