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Patrol Vessels «Condestable Zaragoza» Class, Patrol Boats V-class and Antisubmarine Boats LAS-class
Authors: Valentin Ruesga Herreros
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It’s consider information about the number of ships of the Spanish fleet, that not reflected in the available literature. It’s proved that the Spanish patrol vessels of «Condestable Zaragoza»-class and French auxiliary minesweepers «Fanfaron»-classare one the same ships. The conclusion is made based on comparisons of appearance and performance of ships. There was renovated list of patrol boats V-class, shows that their history can be divided into three main stages: the first, when the boats belonged to the Secretariat militarized protection, information about boats are extremely sketchy and incomplete, the second – their inclusion in the fleet, when the information about the service enough full, but almost previous history is not reflected, and only the third stage, when the change came a new generation of boats old boats, often with the same numbers, the story is full enough. An attempt to reconstruction of the biography of LAS-class boats, it is assumed that this former Soviet boat, put the Republicans during the Civil War.