BAP Villavisencio (FM-52)

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Career

Laid down:	April 21, 1976
Launched:	February 7, 1978
Commissioned:	June 25, 1979
General Characteristics
Displacement:	2,400 tonnes standard
Length:	112.40 m overall 106.00 m waterline
Beam:	11.98 m
Draught:	3.73 m
Propulsion:	CODOG 2 General Electric / Fiat LM2500 gas turbines: 50,000 hp 2 GMT A230-20 diesel engines: 7,800 hp
Speed:	35 knots
Range:	4,350 nm at 16 knots
Complement:	22 officers, 199 enlisted
Radar:	• RAN-10S early warning • RAN-11L/X surface search • 2 RTN-10XP fire control • 2 RTN-20XP fire control • Decca BridgeMaster II navigation
Sonar:	EDO 610E(P) hull
Electronic Warfare:	• Lambda intercept • 2 SCLAR decoy launchers
Armament:	• 8 Otomat Mk 2 SSMs • 8 Aspide SAMs • 8 Igla SAMs • 1 OTO Melara 127/54 mm gun • 2 Breda-Bofors twin 40/70 mm guns • 2 ILAS-3 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	1 AB-212ASW helicopter
ITU callsign:	OBHG

BAP Villavisencio (FM-52) is the second out of four Modified Lupo class frigates ordered by the Peruvian Navy in 1973. It was built by the italian shipbuilder Cantieri Navali Riuniti at its shipyard in Riva Trigoso, Genoa. Delays in the building of the first ship of the class, BAP Carvajal (FM-51), meant Villavisencio was commissioned first.

The Villavisencio is named after Vice Admiral Manuel Villavisencio (1840-1925) who fought in the War of the Pacific.

[edit] Sources

Rodríguez, John, "Las fragatas Lupo: una breve mirada retrospectiva y perspectivas". Revista de Marina, Year 95, No. 3: 8-32 (July / December 2002).