SPS Andalucia (F72)

Spanish frigate Andalucia, Almería, Spain.
Career
Name: SPS Andalucia (F72)
Namesake: Andalusia
Builder: Bazan
Laid down: July 1969
Launched: 30 March 1971
Commissioned: 23 May 1974
Decommissioned: 2005
General characteristics
Class and type:Baleares-class frigate
Displacement:3,015 long tons (3,063 t), standard 4,177 long tons (4,244 t), full load
Length:438 ft (134 m), overall
Beam:46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Draft:24 ft 9 in (7.54 m)
Propulsion:1 shaft, one Westinghouse steam turbine, 2 V2M boilers. total 35,000 shp (maximum),
Speed:28 knots (52 km/h)
Sensors and
processing systems:		AN/SPS-52B Air Search Radar
RAN-12L/X Air Search Radar
AN/SPS-10F Surface Search Radar
DE1160LF Sonar
AN/SQS-35(v)Variable Depth Sonar system
AN/SPG-53 Mk68 Gun Fire Control System
Electronic warfare
and decoys:		Ceselsa Deneb/Canopus, Mk36 SROC decoy launchers
Armament:1 × Mk-16 8 cell missile launcher for RUR-5 ASROC and Harpoon missiles
1 × Mk42 5-inch/54 caliber gun
2 × quad Mk141 launchers for Harpoon missiles
1 × Standard SAM launcher (16 Missiles)
2 × 20mm Meroka CIWS gun systems
Mark 46 torpedoes (from 4 × single tube launchers)

SPS Andalucia (F72) is the second ship of five Spanish-built Baleares-class frigates, based on the American Knox class design, of the Spanish Navy.

Laid down in July 1969 and launched on 30 March 1971, Andalucia was commissioned into service on 23 May 1974.

All of these Spanish frigates were built to the size of the Knox frigates.

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