Principe de Asturias
R.11
1998
(Hai 250)
- Class: Principe de Asturias - 1 light aircraft carrier of 1978
- Displacement: 16,700 tons full load
- Dimensions: 615' (pp) 643' (oa) x 80' x 31'
- Machinery: 2 LM 2500 gas turbines; 46,400 shp; 1 shaft; 2 auxiliary power units with retractable thrusters
- Speed: 26 knots
- Guns: 4-20mm Meroka CIWS
- Aircraft: 17 VSTOL aircraft and helicopters
- Complement: 763
- Builder: Bazan, Ferrol
- Keel Laid: 8 Oct 1979
- Launched: 22 Apr 1982
- Commissioned: 30 May 1988
- Decommissioned: 6 Feb 2013
- Notes: Designed by Gibbs & Cox, New York, as an updated version of the Sea Control Ship proposed for the US Navy in FY75, but not funded. The Thai warship HTMS Chakri Naruebet, delivered in 1997 by Bazan, is based on the same design.
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