Chilean frigate Almirante Condell (PFG-06)
![]() Chilean frigate Almirante Condell (PFG-06)
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Name | Almirante Condell |
Namesake | Admiral Carlos Condell |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow, Scotland |
Laid down | 5 June 1971[1] |
Launched | 12 June 1972[1] |
Christened | Almirante Condell 3, PFG-06 |
Commissioned | 21 December 1973[1] |
Decommissioned | 11 December 2007 |
Fate | Sold to Ecuador, March 2008 |
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Name | Eloy Alfaro |
Namesake | Eloy Alfaro |
Acquired | March 2008 |
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Class and type | Condell-class frigate |
Displacement | 2,500 long tons (2,540 t) standard 2,962 long tons (3,010 t) full load |
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Beam | 43 ft (13.1 m) |
Draught | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 White/English Electric steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers,30,000 hp (22 MW) |
Speed | 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 263 |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Eurocopter AS532 Cougar helicopter |
Chilean frigate Almirante Condell (PFG-06) was a Condell-class frigate of the Chilean Navy, and was the third ship in the Chilean Navy to bear this name.
She is a modified Leander-class frigate ordered by the Chilean government on 14 January 1970 as an ASW frigate, together with Almirante Lynch.[2] The class was built between 1969 and 1973, under Chilean modifications at Yarrow Shipbuilders in Scotstoun, Glasgow. Almirante Condell was delivered to Chile in 1973. She was decommissioned on 11 December 2007.
In March 2008, she was sold to Ecuador, along with her sister ship Almirante Lynch, and renamed BAE Eloy Alfaro (FM 01). Both ships were handed over to the Navy of Ecuador on 18 April 2008.[3]
References[]
- ^ a b c d Saunders 2002, p. 108.
- ^ Baker 1998, p. 102.
- ^ Armada de Chile website Archived 24 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- Baker, A.D. The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World 1998–1999. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-111-4.
- Saunders, Stephen (2002). Jane's Fighting Ships 2002–2003. Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0710624328.
External links[]
- Chilean Navy Website (in Spanish)
Categories:
- Condell-class frigates
- Ships built on the River Clyde
- 1972 ships
- Frigates of the Ecuadorian Navy
- Frigates of the Cold War