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Sunday, 14 April 2013

Greece buying destroyers built for Argentina according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad 1912-1013 no. 7

An item reported  that Greece bought the destroyers San Luis, Santa Fé, Santiago and Tucumon built in 1911 by the shipyard of Cammell and Laird for Argentina. With a displacement of 980-1.180 tons were their dimensions 88,3 x 8,60 x 2,7-3 metres. The Parsons and Curtis turbines supplied 18.000 hp allowing a speed of 30 miles. With a coal bunker capacity of 275 ton and 75 ton liquid fuel was their range with a speed of 15 miles around 3.000 nautical miles. The armament consisted of 4-10cm guns and 4-58cm torpedo tubes with a crew numbering 102 men.