ARV Aragua (D-31)
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Name | ARV Aragua |
Namesake | Aragua |
Ordered | 1950 |
Builder | Vickers Armstrongs Shipyards Barrow in Furness |
Identification | D-31 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Nueva Esparta-class destroyer |
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Length | 402 ft (122,5 m) |
Beam | 43 ft (13 m) |
Draught | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
Propulsion | 2 Foster Wheeler boilers (650 psi, 850 °F), Parsons steam turbines, 50,000 shp |
Speed | 34 kn ( km/h) |
Range | 10,000 nmi at 10 kn, 1 month |
Complement | 18 officers and 236 crew members |
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ARV Aragua was a Nueva Esparta-class destroyer for the Venezuelan Navy. Named for the Venezuelan state of Aragua, it was the leader of the 3rd Destroyer Division and the first one of her own sub-class, among British built for Venezuela naval forces in the 1950s.