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The ''Douro''-class of destroyers included five ships used by the Portuguese Navy (''Marinha Portuguesa'') between 1933 and 1967 and two used by the Colombian Navy (''Armada de la Repúbica de Colombia''). It is to note, that, in Portugal, this class of destroyers is usually referred to as the ''Vouga'' class, with the term ''Douro'' class being usually employed to designate the previous class of Portuguese destroyers also known as . ==Design and construction== In 1930, the Portuguese navy drew up a 10 year shipbuilding programme to replace its aging fleet, with planned purchases including two cruisers, twelve destroyers and a number of submarines and sloops.〔Whitley 2000, p. 221.〕〔Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 396.〕 The competition for the design for destroyers was won by Yarrow Shipbuilders beating bids from Thornycroft and Italian shipyards.〔Friedman 2009, p. 185.〕 An order was placed for four ships on 12 June 1931, with two ships, ''Vouga'' and ''Lima'' to be built by Yarrows in the UK and the remaining ships, ''Tejo'' and ''Douro'' to be built at Lisbon with machinery to be supplied by Yarrow. A fifth ship, ''Dão'', again to be built in Lisbon using Yarrow-supplied machinery, was ordered on 18 January 1933.〔Whitley 2000, p. 222.〕 Yarrow's design was based on , a prototype destroyer built for the Royal Navy in 1926.〔Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 397.〕 The ships were long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . The ship displaced standard and full load.〔Whitley 2000, pp. 221–222.〕 Three Yarrow boilers fitted with air pre-heaters and superheaters supplied steam at to geared steam turbines, driving two propeller shafts and generating , giving a speed of .〔 Sufficient fuel was carried to give a range of at .〔 Armament was similar to contemporary Royal Navy destroyers, with a gun armament of four 4.7 in (120 mm) Vickers-Armstrong Mk G guns, and three 40 mm (2-pounder) 'pom-pom' anti-aircraft guns. Two quadruple banks of 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes were carried, while two depth charge throwers and 12 depth charges constituted the ships' anti-submarine armament. Up to 20 mines could be carried. The ships complement was 147 officers and men.〔 The two Yarrow-built ships were laid down in October 1931,〔 and commissioned in 1933,〔 while the first two Lisbon-built ships, ''Tejo'' and ''Douro'', laid down in 1932,〔 were sold to the Colombian Navy before completion in response to the Leticia Incident between Columbia and Peru, and Peru's purchasing of two ex-Russian destroyers ( and ''Villar'') from Estonia. Renamed and , respectively, they served the Colombians as the .〔〔(''Aniversario No.26 del ARC “Antioquia”'' ), Armada Nacional República de Colombia. 16 April 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2014.〕 Two further ships were ordered by the Portuguese Navy to replace them.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Douro-class destroyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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