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Baptista de Andrade-class corvette is a corvette. It was built by Bazan, Ferrol, Spain. Reported operators include Portuguese Navy.
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Bazan, Ferrol, Spain
Portuguese Navy
João Coutinho class
Viana do Castelo -class patrol vessel
1972–1976
1974–2026
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Corvette
1,203 tons standard, 1,380 tons full load
84.6 m (277 ft 7 in)
10.3 m (33 ft 10 in)
3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
2 shaft, 2 OEW Pielstick diesel engines , 10,560 hp (7,870 kW)
23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
5,900 nmi (10,900 km; 6,800 mi) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
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Former: Radar: AWS-2 air search(Removed later), TM-626 navigation, Pollux fire control Sonar: Diodon Current: Radar: Kelvin Hughes KH5000, Racal Decca RM316P
1 × 100 mm (4 in) gun 2 × single 40 mm/L70 Bofors guns 2 × triple 12.75-inch (324 mm) ASW torpedo tubes
1 helicopter pad for 1 x Super Lynx Mk.95
Source: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-95
The Baptista de Andrade class was a class of four Portuguese-designed corvettes , built for the Portuguese Navy by BAZAN in Francoist Spain in the 1970s.
One ship, NRP Oliveira e Carmo , was decommissioned in 1999 and was officially scrapped on 1 November 2007 and later sunk as an artificial reef on 30 October 2012. NRP Afonso Cerqueira was decommissioned on 13 February 2015 and later sunk as an artificial reef off Madeira . Another ship was decommissioned in 2017 and the last one in 2026. This class was replaced by Viana do Castelo -class patrol vessels .
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Baptista de Andrade-class corvette equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
PortugalNavy exact named equipment holdings: Baptista de Andrade. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: PATROL AND COASTAL COMBATANTS / FS. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
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