Vasco da Gama
F.330
1995
(Argos AS-61)
- Class: Vasco da Gama - 3 MEKO 200 PN frigates of 1986
- Displacement: 2,500 tons
- Dimensions: 387 (oa) 357.5 (wl) x 48.5 x 14 ft.
- Machinery: CODOG: 2 GE LM 2500-30 gas turbine 44,000 SHP + 2 diesels 8,840 SHP; 2 screws = 32 knots
- Guns: 1-3.9"/55 (100 mm) Mod 68 CADAM, 1-20 mm Vulcan Phalanx Mk 15 Mod 11
- Missiles: 8 Harpoon SSM (2 quad) launchers; 8 Sea Sparrow SAM Mk 29 launcher
- Torpedoes: 6-324mm Mk 32 (2x3) tubes
- Helicopters: 2 Super Sea Lynx Mk 95
- Complement: 182
- Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
- Laid down: 1 Feb 1989
- Launched: 26 Jun 1989
- Completed: 18 Jan 1991
- Notes: Sister ships F.331 Alvares Cabral and F.332 Corte Real.
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