Spanish destroyer Lepanto
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Destroyer Lepanto
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   Spain
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| Name: | Lepanto |
| Namesake: | Battle of Lepanto |
| Builder: | SECN, Naval Dockyard, Cartagena, Spain |
| Completed: | 1930 |
| Commissioned: | 1930 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 May 1957 |
| Honours and awards: |
 Distintivo de Madrid 1938 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1958 |
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| Class and type: | Churruca-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,650 tons (normal); 2,067 tons (maximum) |
| Length: | 101 m (331 ft 4 in) |
| Beam: | 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power: | 4 Yarrow boilers, 42,000 hp (31,000 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 Parsons turbines |
| Speed: | 36 knots (67 km/h) |
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| Complement: | 160 |
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Lepanto was a Churruca-class destroyer of the Spanish Republican Navy. She took part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the government of the Second Spanish Republic. She was named after the Battle of Lepanto.
Lepanto saw a lot of action in during the Spanish Civil War. At the start of the hostilities she was involved in the blockade of the Gibraltar Strait to prevent the rebel transport of troops from Spanish Morocco to southern Spain. In the course of these operations she was damaged by rebel aircraft on 5 August 1936, a couple of hours before the convoy known as Convoy de la victoria successfully broke the Republican blockade. In September she joined the squadron which sailed to the Bay of Biscay in support of Republican forces isolated on the northern front. For most of 1937 the destroyer was on convoy duty. While involved in one of these missions, Lepanto took part of the Battle of Cape Cherchell.
At the Battle of Cape Palos, Lepanto together with Sánchez Barcáiztegui and Almirante Antequera, broke away from escorting the cruiser Libertad and fired three torpedoes at the Nationalist heavy cruiser Baleares. Since Lepanto was likely responsible for the fatal hit in the forward magazine that sank the opposing cruiser, she was awarded the Distintivo de Madrid along with other loyalist vessels.
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