:Pará-class destroyer (1959)

{{short description|Class of destroyers of the Brazilian Navy}}

{{other ships|Pará-class destroyer (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox ship image

| Ship image = File:CT Para D27 Classe Fletcher.jpg

| Ship caption = Pará

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{{Infobox ship class overview

| Name = Pará class

| Builders = *Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation

| Operators = {{naval|Brazil}}

| Class before = {{sclass|Acre|destroyer|4}}

| Class after = {{sclass|Mato Grosso|destroyer|4}}

| Subclasses =

| Cost =

| Built range = 1941–1945

| In service range =

| In commission range = 1959–1990

| Total ships building =

| Total ships planned = 7

| Total ships completed = 7

| Total ships cancelled =

| Total ships active =

| Total ships laid up =

| Total ships lost =

| Total ships retired = 7

| Total ships preserved =

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{{Infobox ship characteristics

| Ship type = Destroyer

| Ship displacement = {{convert|2050|LT|t|0|lk=on|abbr=on}}

| Ship length = {{convert|376|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}}

| Ship beam = {{convert|39|ft|8|in|m|abbr=on}}

| Ship draft = {{convert|13|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}}

| Ship propulsion = *{{convert|60000|shp|lk=on|abbr=on}}

  • 2 × propellers

| Ship speed = {{convert|35|kn|lk=in}}

| Ship range = {{convert|6500|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|15|kn}}

| Ship complement = 300

| Ship sensors = *AN/SPS-6 air-search radar

| Ship EW =

| Ship armament = *D27-29 and D31-33:

| Ship armor =

| Ship notes =

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The Pará-class destroyer is a class of destroyers of the Brazilian Navy. Seven ships of the {{sclass|Fletcher|destroyer|4}} were lent by the United States Navy and were in commission from 1959 until 1990.{{Cite web|last=encyclopedia|first=david bocquelet-Naval|title=Brazilian Navy - Marina do Brazil 1947-1990|url=https://naval-encyclopedia.com/|access-date=2022-01-28|website=naval-encyclopedia.com|language=en}}

Development

Parâ was commissioned as {{USS|Guest|DD-472|6}} on 15 December 1942, Paraíba was commissioned as {{USS|Bennett||6}} on 9 February 1943, Paraná was commissioned as {{USS|Cushing|DD-797|6}} on 17 January 1944, Pernambuco was commissioned as {{USS|Hailey||6}} on 30 September 1943, Piauí was commissioned as {{USS|Lewis Hancock||6}} on 30 September 1943, Santa Catarina was commissioned as {{USS|Irwin||6}} on 30 September 1943 and Maranhao was commissioned as {{USS|Shields||6}} on 8 February 1945.{{sfn|Gardiner|Chumbley|Budzbon|1995|p=7}}{{sfn|DANFS}}

After World War II, they were in a mothball state, but were later handed over to Brazil based on the Brazil-US Ship Loan Agreement. The ships took part in the Lobster War, in the 1960s, while escorting the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais. All 7 ships were delivered in batches of 2 at a time, thus the ships having different armaments and configurations.

Ships in the class

class="wikitable"
colspan="7" |Pará class

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!Name

!Builder

!Laid down

!Launched

!Acquired

!Decommissioned

!Fate

D27

| Pará

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Boston Navy Yard

|27 September 1941

|20 February 1942

|5 June 1959

|1978

|Sunk as target, 1983

D28

|Paraíba

|10 December 1941

|16 April 1942

|15 December 1959

|1978

|Scrapped, 1978

D29

|Paraná

| align="center" |Bethlehem Steel

|3 May 1943

|30 September 1943

|20 July 1961

|1 August 1973

|Scrapped, 1982

D30

|Pernambuco

| align="center" |Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation

|11 April 1942

|9 March 1943

|20 July 1961

|1982

|Sunk as target, 1982

D31

|Piauí

| align="center" |Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company

|31 March 1943

|1 August 1943

|1 August 1967

|1989

|Scrapped, 1989

D32

|Santa Catarina

| align="center" |Bethlehem Shipbuilding San Pedro

|2 May 1943

|31 October 1943

|10 May 1968

|28 December 1988

|Sunk as target, 1990

D33

|Maranhao

| align="center" |Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

|10 August 1943

|25 September 1944

|1 July 1972

|1990

|Scrapped, 1990

References

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Bibliography

  • {{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34267261|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995|date=1995|publisher=Naval Institute Press|first1=Robert|last1= Gardiner |first2=Stephen |last2= Chumbley |first3=Przemysław |last3= Budzbon|isbn=1-55750-132-7|location=Annapolis, Md.|oclc=34267261}}
  • {{cite DANFS

| title = Shields (DD-596)

| url = https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/shields.html

| date = 4 April 2015

| access-date = 26 January 2025

| ref = {{sfnRef|DANFS}}

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