Spanish frigate Méndez Núñez
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Méndez Núñez (F-104) is an Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate of the Spanish Navy. She is the fourth ship of her class, entering service in 2006. She is named after the 19th-century Spanish Rear admiral Casto Méndez Núñez. It was the first Spanish Navy vessel to visit the Philippines since the end of the Southeast Asian nation's Spanish colonial-period in 1898.[3]
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Méndez Núñez (F-104) at a naval review in 2017. | |
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Name | Méndez Núñez |
Namesake | Casto Méndez Núñez |
Ordered | 31 January 1997 |
Builder | Navantia |
Cost | $600 million |
Laid down | 16 May 2003 |
Launched | 12 November 2004 |
Commissioned | 21 March 2006 |
Homeport | Naval Base of Ferrol |
Identification | Pennant number: F-104 |
Status | in active service |
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Class and type | Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate |
Displacement | 5,800-6,391 tonnes[1] |
Length | 146.7 m (481 ft)[2] |
Beam | 18.6 m (61 ft) |
Draft | 4.75 m (15.6 ft) |
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Speed | 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph)[2] |
Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)[2] |
Complement | 250 (48 officers)[2] |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Sikorsky SH-60B LAMPS III Seahawk |
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