BRAZILIAN NAVY NORTHEAST NAVAL FORCE * - 11 DESTROYER ESCORTS
3)DE ESC BAURU D18
Photo. SDGM. Serviço de Documentação Geral da Marinha
Above Destroyer Escort Bauru seen as a floating museum at Rio de Janeiro.
Photo. SDGM. Serviço de Documentação Geral da Marinha
Built 1943Commissioned 15 Aug 44 Decommissioned
Tonnage : 1630
Length: 93.2 m
Beam: 11 m
Draught: 6.09 m.
Propulsion: Diesel-Electric 4 General Motors Engines Model 16-278A in tandem, with 6.000 shp, two shafts.
Speed: 21 knots
Armament: 3.3 inch (76.2 mm/50) guns three single mountings Mk 22; 2 Bofors guns L/60 , 40 mm doublé mounting Mk 1; 8 Oerlikon Machineguns 20 mm single mounting Mk 4; 1 triple mounting torpedo tube 21 in (533 mm); 1 Thrower A/S (LBG) Mk 10; 2 Depth Charge racks Mk 3 and 8 K gun K Mk 6 for Depth Charges Mk 6 or Mk 9 and 2 Smoke Generators Mk 4.Sensors: 1 air surveillance radar SA; 1 Surface radar SL; 2 Optical directors Mk 51, coupled to the fire direction system Mk 51 and Sonar QCS-1.
Complement: 216
DE 177 Reybold was decommissioned at Natal,15 Aug 44 and transferred to Brazil. Renamed Bauru (D-18)
