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Acre-class destroyer

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	CT Acre (D-10).jpg
image_caption	CT Acre - D 10
section2	{{Infobox ship/class overview
name	Acre class
builders	Ilha das Cobas, Rio de Janeiro
operators
class_before	Marcílio Dias class
class_after	Pará class
built_range	1940–1949
in_commission_range	1949–1974
total_ships_completed	6
total_ships_retired	6
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
header_caption
type	Destroyer
displacement	*1340 LT standard
length	98.45 m oa
beam	10.67 m
draught	2.59 m
propulsion	2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 3 boilers 34,000 hp
speed	35.5 kn
complement	150
armament	*4 × 1 5 inch/38 guns
*8 depth charge throwers<ref name	"conway22 p417"Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 417.

1800 LT full load
1 × 2 40 mm guns
4 × 1 20 mm guns
2 × 3 (Acre, Ajuricaba) or 2 × 4 (all others) 21 inch torpedo tubes
8 depth charge throwers

The Acre-class destroyers were a class of six destroyers built during World War II for the Brazilian Navy. None were completed before the end of the war. They are also referred to in some sources as the Amazonas class.

Design

Built in Brazil to a modified British design along with some U.S. equipment, they were built to replace six H-class destroyers (or Jurua class) ordered from Britain but purchased by Britain for use in the war. Due to design complications, the ships took a long time to complete, having been finished from 1949 to 1951.

The ships received a refit in the early 1960s with new electronics and gun no. 2 being replaced by a 40mm Bofors mounting. Two ships were decommissioned in 1964 and the remaining four from 1973 to 1974.

Ships

The six ships were:

Ship	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned
28 December 1940	30 May 1945	10 December 1951	1974
28 December 1940	30 May 1945	December 1951	1964
20 July 1940	29 November 1943	10 November 1949	1973
28 December 1940	30 May 1945	December 1951	1964
28 December 1940	14 July 1946	23 June 1951	1974
20 July 1940	24 November 1943	3 September 1949	1974

Citations

References

Whitley M.J. Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Cassell Publishing, 2000.

References

Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 417.
Whitley 2000, p. 22

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