ARV Aragua (D-31)

Aragua destroyer
History
Venezuela Venezuelan NavyVenezuela
Name: ARV Aragua (D-31)
Namesake: Aragua
Ordered: 1950
Builder: Vickers Armstrongs Shipyards Barrow in Furness
General characteristics
Displacement:
  • Standard: 2,600 tons
  • Full load: 3,670 tons
Length: 402 ft (122,5 m)
Beam: 43 ft (13 m)
Draught: 19 ft (5.8 m)
Propulsion: 2 Foster Wheeler boilers (650 psi, 850 °F), Parsons steam turbines, 50,000 shp
Speed: 34 kn ( km/h)
Range: 10,000 nmi at 10 kn, 1 month
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 /45 (114 mm) Mark V in 3 twin mountings UD Mark VI
  • 4 × 40 mm /60 Bofors A/A in 2 twin mounts STAAG Mk.II
  • 2 × 40 mm /60 Bofors A/A in 1 twin mount Mk.V
  • 2 × Torpedo tubes for 21 in (533 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX
  • 1 × 'Squid A/S mortar

Aragua was the name of a Venezuelan destroyer. Named for the Venezuelan state of Aragua, it was the leader of the 3rd Destroyer Division and the first one of her own sub-class, among British built for Venezuela naval forces in the 1950s.

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