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Frigate Almirante Condell (PFG-06)

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Classification

Ship class:
Condell-class frigate
Type:
Frigate

Basic information

Namesake:
Carlos Arnaldo Condell De La Haza (August 14, 1843 – November 24, 1887) was a prominent Chilean naval officer and hero of the Battle of Punta Gruesa during the start of the War of the Pacific.
Renaming:
  • As build: Almirante Condell (PFG-06)
  • 2008: BAE Eloy Alfaro (FM 01)
Operator:
Ecuadorian NavyEcuadorian Navy Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile)Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile)
Country of build:
Builder:
Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Status:
Active
Fate:
Sold to Ecuador, March 2008

Ship measurements

Displacement:
2,540 t
Length:
113 m
Beam (waterline):
12 m
Draft:
5.5 m

Machine

Propulsion:
  • 2 * Babcock & Wilcox boilers
  • 2 * White/English Electric steam turbines
  • 2 * shafts
  • 25,000 shp (19,000 kW)
Speed:
29 knots
Range:
4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 12 kn (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 * twin Vickers 114 mm/55 Mk 6 gun
  • 1 * 20 mm Phalanx Block 0 CIWS
  • 2 * Oerlikon 20 mm guns
  • 2 * triple Mk.32 torpedo tubes
Aircraft:
  • 1 * Bell 412 helicopter
  • Helipad
  • Fixed hangar for 1 medium helicopter
  • Indal ASIST helicopter recovery system

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 modified Leander-class frigate ordered by the Chilean government on 14 January 1970 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. 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 renamed BAE Eloy Alfaro (FM 01). Both ships were handed over to the Navy of Ecuador on 18 April 2008.

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