HÉRCULES ARA (D1)
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 7:07 pm
Built as a destroyer of the modified Type 42 under yard 1089 by Vickers Shipbuilding, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom for the Argentinean Navy.
18 May 1970 ordered.
16 June 1971 keel laid down.
24 October 1972 launched as the ARA HÉRCULES (D1). One sister the SANTISIMA TRINIDAD built in Argentine.
Displacement 3,150 ton standard, 4,100 ton full load. Dim 125.6 x 14.3 x 5.8m (draught).
Powered COGOG by two gas turbines Olympus Rolls-Royce TM38, 50,000hp. two gas turbines Tyne Rolls Royce RM1A, 9,900 hp, twin shafts, speed 30 knots under Olympus power and 18 knots under Tyne power.
Range by a power of 18 knots, 4,000 miles.
Armament: 2 – Sea Dart MK30 missiles, 22 missiles. 4 – MM38 Exocet missiles. 1 – 4.5 inch DP gun and 2 – 20mm Oerlikons.
2 - 3 Torpedo tubes 324mm, Whitehead AS-244 anti submarine torpedoes.
1 Westland Lynx Helicopter.
Crew 300.
20 May 1976 completed.
19 September 1977 commissioned, and joined the First Destroyer Division, at the Puerto Belgrano naval base.
December 1978 she took part in the Beagle Strait Conflict between Argentine and Chile, she was a unit of Task Force 2 with the mission to occupy the islands Lennox, Nueva y Picton and Cape Horn.
1982 She was along with her sister the SANTISIMA TRINIDAD escort of the aircraft carrier VEITICINCO DE MAYO; so far I known the aircraft carrier never left her port during the conflict.
02 April 1982 at 04.40 a unit of Task Force 40 she escorted the transport CABO SAN ANTONIO and entered Port Williams north of Port Stanley.
At 06.15 the task force commenced landings in York Bay north of the airport with the mission to take the airport near Port Stanley. After the airport was occupied on 08.30 that day the first C-130 Hercules airplanes could land.
The HERCULES returned back to Argentinean coastal waters for patrol duty.
After the war mostly used for patrol duty and numerous naval operations as a unit of First Destroyer Division.
1993 She fired her last missile a Sea Dart for practicing. Her sister was taken out of service in 1989 and she used spare parts cannibalized from her afterwards.
Late 1999 she sailed to the ASMAR shipyard in Talcahuana, Chile to be modified in a rapid multipurpose command and transport ship.
The flight deck and hangars were enlarged to receive and operate two Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King helicopters, adding facilities for launching and recovering RHIB’s.
Armament: the Dart missiles were not removed but are inoperable. Exocet missiles removed, 1 – 199mm DP, 2 – 20mm AA guns. 2 – 3 torpedo tubes 324mm.
Crew 116 and can carry 238 marine infantry troops
Received the new pennant No (B-52).
2012 In service based at Puerto Belgrano.
Argentine 1996 75c sg2495, scott1943.
Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_H%C3%A9rcules_(B-52) and various other web-sites.
18 May 1970 ordered.
16 June 1971 keel laid down.
24 October 1972 launched as the ARA HÉRCULES (D1). One sister the SANTISIMA TRINIDAD built in Argentine.
Displacement 3,150 ton standard, 4,100 ton full load. Dim 125.6 x 14.3 x 5.8m (draught).
Powered COGOG by two gas turbines Olympus Rolls-Royce TM38, 50,000hp. two gas turbines Tyne Rolls Royce RM1A, 9,900 hp, twin shafts, speed 30 knots under Olympus power and 18 knots under Tyne power.
Range by a power of 18 knots, 4,000 miles.
Armament: 2 – Sea Dart MK30 missiles, 22 missiles. 4 – MM38 Exocet missiles. 1 – 4.5 inch DP gun and 2 – 20mm Oerlikons.
2 - 3 Torpedo tubes 324mm, Whitehead AS-244 anti submarine torpedoes.
1 Westland Lynx Helicopter.
Crew 300.
20 May 1976 completed.
19 September 1977 commissioned, and joined the First Destroyer Division, at the Puerto Belgrano naval base.
December 1978 she took part in the Beagle Strait Conflict between Argentine and Chile, she was a unit of Task Force 2 with the mission to occupy the islands Lennox, Nueva y Picton and Cape Horn.
1982 She was along with her sister the SANTISIMA TRINIDAD escort of the aircraft carrier VEITICINCO DE MAYO; so far I known the aircraft carrier never left her port during the conflict.
02 April 1982 at 04.40 a unit of Task Force 40 she escorted the transport CABO SAN ANTONIO and entered Port Williams north of Port Stanley.
At 06.15 the task force commenced landings in York Bay north of the airport with the mission to take the airport near Port Stanley. After the airport was occupied on 08.30 that day the first C-130 Hercules airplanes could land.
The HERCULES returned back to Argentinean coastal waters for patrol duty.
After the war mostly used for patrol duty and numerous naval operations as a unit of First Destroyer Division.
1993 She fired her last missile a Sea Dart for practicing. Her sister was taken out of service in 1989 and she used spare parts cannibalized from her afterwards.
Late 1999 she sailed to the ASMAR shipyard in Talcahuana, Chile to be modified in a rapid multipurpose command and transport ship.
The flight deck and hangars were enlarged to receive and operate two Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King helicopters, adding facilities for launching and recovering RHIB’s.
Armament: the Dart missiles were not removed but are inoperable. Exocet missiles removed, 1 – 199mm DP, 2 – 20mm AA guns. 2 – 3 torpedo tubes 324mm.
Crew 116 and can carry 238 marine infantry troops
Received the new pennant No (B-52).
2012 In service based at Puerto Belgrano.
Argentine 1996 75c sg2495, scott1943.
Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_H%C3%A9rcules_(B-52) and various other web-sites.