ARC Antioquia (1933)
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| Name: | ARC Antioquia |
| Builder: | Yarrow |
| Launched: | 9 June 1932 |
| Acquired: | 1933 |
| Commissioned: | 29 March 1933 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 January 1961 |
| Refit: | 1954 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Antioquia-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,219 tons (empty); 1,563 tons (loaded) |
| Length: | 323 ft 1 in (98.48 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 2 in (9.50 m) |
| Height: | 10 ft 11 in (3.33 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Installed power: | 33,000 shp |
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| Speed: | 36 kn (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range: | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Endurance: | 9 days |
| Complement: | 147 |
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ARC Antioquia was an Antioquia-class destroyer, the first ship of that name to serve the navy of Colombia, the Armada Nacional República de Colombia.
Antioquia was built in Lisbon, Portugal as a Douro-class destroyer for the Portuguese Navy (the Marinha Portuguesa), and originally named NRP Douro. The design of the six ships of the Douro class was by the British company Yarrow Shipbuilders, based on that of the Royal Navy's prototype destroyer HMS Ambuscade. Two were built at Yarrow's shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland, and the remaining four in Lisbon with Yarrow machinery. The name Douro had previously been applied in the Portuguese Navy to a destroyer, which served from 1914 to 1931, and was subsequently given to another destroyer (D332), commissioned from 1936 until 1959.
Douro was purchased before her completion by the Armada Nacional República de Colombia in 1933 in response to the Colombia–Peru War. She was renamed for Colombia's Antioquia Department, which had contributed the funds for her acquisition. A sister-ship, NRP Tejo, was purchased at the same time and renamed ARC Caldas. Collectively, the Colombian Navy called the two ships Antioquia-class destroyers.
In 1936 Antioquia was involved in what could have been a serious international incident.
On the occasion of the death of the British King, George V, the Bermuda Militia Artillery (BMA), a part-time reserve of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, had been instructed to fire a memorial salute from a 4.7 inches (120 mm) gun at St. David's Battery, in the British colony of Bermuda. This salute was to consist of seventy blank rounds, one for each year of the king's life, fired at one-minute intervals.
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