ARV Zulia (D-21)
![]() ARV Zulia (D-21) in 1969 | |
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Name: | ARV Zulia (D-21) |
Namesake: | Zulia |
Ordered: | 1950 |
Builder: | Vickers Armstrongs Shipyards Barrow in Furness |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | Standard: 2,600 tons Full load: 3,670 tons |
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 |
Sensors and processing systems: | Radar Type 293Q target indication Radar Type 291 air warning |
Armament: | 6 x QF 4.5 in /45 (114 mm) Mark V in 3 twin mountings UD Mark VI 4 x 40 mm /60 Bofors A/A in 2 twin mounts STAAG Mk.II |
Zulia was the name of a Venezuelan destroyer. Named for the Venezuelan state of Zulia, it was the leader of the 2nd Destroyer Division and the second ship of the Nueva Esparta class, among British built for Venezuela naval forces in the 1950s.