Condell-class frigate

Basic information

Type:

Frigate

Parent class:

Leander-class frigate (Type 12I frigates)

Operators:

Ecuadorian Navy

Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile)

Country of build:

United Kingdom

Builder:

Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd

Completed:

In service:

1974 – present (50 years)

Ship measurements

Displacement:

2,540 t

Length:

113 m

Beam:

12 m

Machine

Propulsion:

2 * Babcock & Wilcox boilers
2 * White/English Electric steam turbines
25,000 shp (19,000 kW)
2 * shafts

Speed:

29 knots

Range:

4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)

Personnel

Complement:

263

Combat assets

Electronics:

SISDEF Imagen SP 100 CMS
Type 965 air-search
Elta EL/M-2221GM fire control
Type 1006 navigation radar
Type 184P hull sonar
Elisra NS-9003A ESM system
2 * Corvus trainable chaff rocket launchers
Wallop Barricade double layer chaff launcher

Armament:

4 * Exocet MM40 Block 1 SSMs
1 * Vickers 114 mm/55 Mk 6 twin gun
1 * 20 mm Phalanx Block 0 CIWS
2 * Oerlikon 20 mm gun
2 * Mk.32 triple torpedo tubes

Aircraft:

1 * helicopter
Helipad
Fixed hangar for 1 medium helicopter
Indal ASIST helicopter recovery system

The Condell class was the name given to a class of two new build and upgraded type Leander-class frigates of the Chilean Navy, Almirante Condell and Almirante Lynch. They were ordered by the Chilean government in 1969 as ASW frigates. The ships were built between 1969 and 1973, under Chilean modifications, by Yarrow (Shipbuilders) Ltd. in Scotstoun, Glasgow. Almirante Condell arrived in Chile in 1973, with Almirante Lynch following in 1974.

Almirante Lynch was decommissioned on 4 July 2007 after 33 years service. Almirante Condell was decommissioned on 18 April 2008, before both were sold to the Ecuadorian Navy on the same day. Both frigates were replaced by HMS Norfolk, HMS Marlborough, HMS Grafton; three Type 23-class vessels purchased from the British Royal Navy.