Chilean destroyer Aldea
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The third Aldea was a Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". of the Chilean Navy in service from 1928 to 1967, but temporarily reactivated in 1973 to participate in the coup d'etat, where she and Captain Prat were used to secure Federico Santa María Technical University.[1] She was laid down in 1928 by Thornycroft, at Woolston, Hampshire, England. She was launched by Mrs. Berta Castro de Merino (mother of future admiral José Toribio Merino) in November 1928, and commissioned in July 1929.
Aldea was one of six vessels in its class to serve Chile. The class was ordered from the United Kingdom and delivered in 1928 and 1929. Like its sister ships Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., it was also equipped for duties as a minesweeper. The vessels had a displacement of Script error: No such module "convert". at full load and were armed with three Script error: No such module "convert"./45 and one Script error: No such module "convert"./40 DP gun, as well as six Script error: No such module "convert". torpedo tubes. The ships could make Script error: No such module "convert"., but their light build proved unsuitable for the harsh southern waters off Chile's coast.
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