Dinsmar-class

Class overview
Name:	Dinsmar-class
Builders:	Pereda Construction Mileth Carpinteiro Naval
Operators:	Temuair
Built:	1926 - 1949
In service:	1929 - 1965
In commission:	1932 - 1965
Planned:	18
Completed:	18
Lost:	5
Retired:	13
Preserved:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Light Torpedo Cruiser (CLK)
Displacement:	5,500 long tons (5,588 t) normal 5,832 long tons (5,926 t) full load
Length:	162.1 m (531 ft 10 in)
Beam:	14.2 m (46 ft 7 in)
Draught:	4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Propulsion:	12 steam boilers with 4 shafts 90,000 shp (67,000 kW)
Speed:	36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h)
Range:	9,000 nmi (17,000 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Complement:	450
Armament:	4 x 140 mm Brais Roi Arsenal CB-140/14 naval cannons 2 x quad-mount KFyK 37 anti-aircraft cannons 10 x 533 mm quadruple torpedo tube mounts for a total of 40 ready torpedo. After 1951 refit 1 x Brais Roi Arsenal BCA-120/37 dual purpose 120 mm cannons 2 x quad-mount KFyK 37 anti-aircraft cannons
Aircraft carried:	Pre 1946 revision: 0 Post 1946 revision: 7 Post 1971 revision: 0
Aviation facilities:	Hanger and cranes on 1950's revision.

The Dinsmar-class were a run of warships built by Pereda Construction, now Pereda Construción Naval Consolidada for the Imperial Navy of Temuair between 1926 and 1946. These vessels, classified as light torpedo cruisers were unique in that they used torpedoes as their primary anti-ship weapon. Over its long years of several, several vessels of this class would be refitted to serve as seaplane tenders, and be reclassified from CLT to AV vessels, carrying 6 seaplanes.

History

In 1951, six Dinsmar-class vessels were refitted to serve as seaplane tenders for the Parada-Vara Parada-Vara L-2 Dardo Mariño seaplane. Refits for two of the vessels, the BNA Honesto and BNA Nobre were conducted at the Mileth Carpinteiro Naval shipyards in Mileth starting in early 1952, and completed in 1954, just prior to the HL-55 being officially accepted into service. The vessels were rechristened the BNA Rubí and BNA Cuarzo respectively to uphold Imperial naval ship name conversions. In 1955, the two selected vessels, the BNA Solais, and BNA Castas were refitted at the Mileth Yards, and rechristened BNA Safira and BNA Perla in 1957.

The vessels saw two of the four original 140 mm Brais Roi Arsenal AN-14 naval cannons removed, though they retained the two quad-mount KFyK 37 anti-aircraft cannons for defense against aircraft. The deck space which formally housed the 10 533 mm torpedo tubes and related equipment was extensively reworked to include hanger facility designed to house up to seven seaplanes, as well as the cranes and other necessary equipment to launch and recover the aircraft.

The L-2 Dardo Mariño was, however, retried from service in 1959, and the four vessels were inactivated ad immediately scrapped.

The other 14 Dinsmar class vessels were retired between 1950 and 1956, the Imperial Navy have determined they were no longer useful in combat.

Operators

Former

• Temuair
  • Imperial Navy of Temuair

List of vessels

Hull number	Name	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate	Notes
CLK-01	BNA Honestidade	1926	1929	1932	Preserved as a museum ship
CLK-02	BNA Desbotante	1927	1930	1931	Sunk in 1944
CLK-03	BNA Integridade				Sunk in 1936
CLK-04	BNA Desmond Acuna			1932
CLK-05	BNA Fidelidade			1933	Target ship, destroyed in 1975
CLK-06	BNA Xustiza	1929	1931		Sunk in 1941
CLK-07	BNA Ignacia Balcazar			1934	Target ship, destroyed in 1961 during atomic testing against sea vessels
CLK-08	BNA Veraz				Sunk to create an artificial reef in 1979
CLK-09	BNA Confianza		1932	1935	Scrapped in 1964
CLK-10	BNA Tristán Gomez	1933	1935	1937
CLK-11 AV-11	BNA Honesto BNA Rubí		1936		Scrapped in 1970
CLK-12 AV-12	BNA Nobre BNA Cuarzo			1938
CLK-14	BNA Implacable				Sunk in 1943
CLK-15	BNA Virtuoso	1941	1943	1943	Scrapped in 1965
CLK-16	BNA Shane Encinas	1942	1945
CLK-17 AV-14	BNA Solais BNA Castas	1943			Scrapped in 1972
CLK-18 AV-15	BNA Safira BNA Perla				Scrapped in 1973