Chilean frigate Almirante Condell (PFG-06)


Chilean frigate Almirante Condell (PFG-06)
Career (Chile)
Name: Almirante Condell
Namesake: Admiral Carlos Condell
Builder: Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow, Scotland
Laid down: June 1971
Launched: 12 June 1972
Christened: Almirante Condell 3, PFG-06
Commissioned: 21 December 1973
Decommissioned: 11 December 2007
Fate: Sold to Ecuador, March 2008
Career (Ecuador)
Name: BAE Eloy Alfaro (FM-01)
Namesake: Eloy Alfaro
Acquired: March 2008
General characteristics
Class and type: Condell-class frigate
Displacement: 2,500 long tons (2,540 t)
Length: 372 ft (113 m)
Beam: 41 ft (12 m)
Draught: 18 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, 2 White/English Electric steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers,30,000 hp (22 MW)
Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range: 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 250
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • SISDEF Imagen SP 100 CMS
  • Type 184P hull sonar
  • Type 1006 navigation radar
  • Type 965 air-search
  • Elta EL/M-2221GM fire control
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 × Bell 412 helicopter

Chilean frigate Almirante Condell (PFG-06) was a Condell-class frigate of the Chilean Navy, and was the third ship in the Chilean Navy to bear this name.

She is a refitted Leander-class frigate ordered by the Chilean government in 1969 as an ASW frigate, together with Almirante Lynch. The class was built between 1969 and 1973, under Chilean modifications at Yarrow Shipbuilders in Scotstoun, Glasgow. The Almirante Condell was delivered to Chile in 1973. She was decommissioned on 11 December 2007.

In March 2008, she was sold to Ecuador, along with her sister ship Almirante Lynch, and re-named BAE Eloy Alfaro (FM 01). Both ships were handed over to the Navy of Ecuador on 18 April 2008.[1]

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