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BRAZILIAN NAVY SOUTHERN NAVAL FORCE - SOUTHERN NAVAL FORCE

8)CV VIDAL DE NEGREIROS F5



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Launched: 11/Dec/1942


Incorporated: 14/Jan/1944.


Decom: 1959.


Displacement: 680 ton , 813 (loaded).


Dimensions: Length: 53.70 m.


Beam:8.53 m .


Draught: 4.87 m.


Propulsão: Coal burners, triple expansion boilers with 1.000 hp.


Speed: 12,5 knots.


Range: 2.500 miles.


Armament: 1 , 3 pol. (76 mm) gun, 4 Oerlikon Mk 10 , 20 mm/70 Machineguns, single mountings and 4 D/C throwers K Mk 6 and Mk 9.


Complement: 70.


Fate: Converted to survey ship in 1955.


Corvette Vidal de Negreiros, ex-Pelegrine was ordered with five more of the same class by British Shipowner The Marine Navigation Company Ltd., as Trawlers and was built by the Brazilian shipyard Organização Henrique Lage, at Viana Island, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. With the War II outset, these vessels already under construction, with all units with keel laid and 2 launched, were ceded by the British Admiralty to the Brazilian Government on 24/Aug/1942.


Thence the cost was afforded by the Brazilian Navy and they were incorporated 12/Oct/1942. Pelegrine, was re classified as a Corvette and was named Vidal de Negreiros. Her first commander was Lieutenant Captain Fernando de Almeida Rodrigues. Vidal de Negreiros took active role in the patrol escorting several convoys in the West South Atlantic sub área.


 

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