Acre-class destroyer

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Class overview
Name	Acre class
Builders	Ilha das Cobas, Rio de Janeiro
Operators	Brazilian Navy
Preceded by	Marcílio Dias class
Succeeded by	Pará class
Built	1940–1949
In commission	1949–1974
Completed	6
Retired	6
General characteristics [1]
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,340 long tons (1,360 t) standard 1,800 long tons (1,829 t) full load
Length	98.45 m (323 ft 0 in) oa
Beam	10.67 m (35 ft 0 in)
Draught	2.59 m (8 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 3 boilers 34,000 hp (25,000 kW)
Speed	35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h)
Complement	150
Armament	4 × 1 5 inch/38 guns 1 × 2 40 mm guns 4 × 1 20 mm guns 2 × 3 (Acre, Ajuricaba) or 2 × 4 (all others) 21 inch torpedo tubes 8 depth charge throwers[2]

The Acre-class destroyers were a class of six destroyers built during World War II for the Brazilian Navy. None were completed before the end of the war. They are also referred to in some sources as the Amazonas class.

Built in Brazil to a modified British design along with some U.S. equipment, they were built to replace six H-class destroyers (or Jurua class) ordered from Britain but purchased by Britain for use in the war. Due to design complications, the ships took a long time to complete, having been finished from 1949 to 1951.

The ships received a refit in the early 1960s with new electronics and gun no. 2 being replaced by a 40mm Bofors mounting. Two ships were decommissioned in 1964 and the remaining four from 1973 to 1974.

The six ships were:

• List of ship classes of the Second World War

• Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger, eds. (1980). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
• Whitley M.J. Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Cassell Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1-85409-521-8