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Jose Luis Diez
Jose Luis Diez
History
Spain
Name: Jos? Luis D?ez
Namesake: Jos? Luis D?ez y P?rez Mu?oz

Builder: SECN, Naval Dockyard, Cartagena, Spain

Completed: 1929
Commissioned: 1929
Decommissioned: 1965
Identification: JD
Nickname(s): Pepe el del puerto
Fate: Scrapped in 1965
General characteristics
Class and type: Churruca-class destroyer

Displacement: 1,650 tons (normal); 2,067 tons (maximum)
Length: 101 m (331 ft 4 in)
Beam: 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in)
Height: 6.02 m (19 ft 9 in)
Draught: 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in)
Installed power: ? 4 Yarrow boilers
? 42,000 hp (31,000 kW)

Propulsion: 2 Parsons turbines

Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h)
Range: ? 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
? 3,100 nautical miles (5,700 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement: 160
Armament: ? 5 ? 120 mm (4.7 in) L45 (5x1)
? 1 ? 76 mm (3 in) anti-aircraft gun
? 4 ? machineguns
? 6 ? 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (2x3)
? 2 ? depth charge racks

Jos? Luis D?ez was a Churruca-class destroyer in the Spanish Republican Navy. She took part in the Spanish Civil War on the government side.
She was named after Teniente de Nav?o Jos? Luis D?ez y P?rez Mu?oz.
Civil War
The ship sailed into Biscay in 1936 and was anchored off Santurce for some time. She received the nickname Pepe el del puerto ("Joe of the harbor"), for her perceived inactivity.
On 20 April 1937, she was involved in a friendly fire incident when her anti-aircraft guns shot down Felipe del R?o's Polikarpov I-15. The gunners mistook the aircraft for a German fighter.
On 31 May of the same year, the Police and the Marina de Guerra Auxiliar de Euzkadi took control of Jos? Luis D?ez and C?scar. At the request of the Republican government, the ships embarked more than 200 sailors of the auxiliary Navy from Euzkadi to replace their original crews, who had been deemed untrustworthy. The ships were eventually returned to their original crews.
On 10 June 1937, C?scar, under the command of Alf?rez de Nav?o Juan Antonio Castro and Jos? Luis D?ez commanded by teniente de nav?o Evaristo Lopez engaged the cruiser Almirante Cervera (capit?n de nav?o Manuel Moreu). The result was inconclusive.
Jos? Luis D?ez and C?scar left Bilbao on 15 June 1937, heading for France. They were loaded with refugees and several civilian and military personalities, shortly before the Nationalists entered Bilbao. Both ships went on to Santander, and after its fall, to Gijon. Jos? Luis D?ez then took refuge in Falmouth, England where, among others, the commander, the engine room chief and the navigator deserted. Subsequently, the destroyer sailed to Le Havre, France.
She then used her strong resemblance to a British destroyer as part of a ruse in an attempt to break the blockade of the Gibraltar Strait and return to the Mediterranean Sea in June 1938. During the trip, she sank two Nationalist-flagged trawlers. The ship was painted with the pennant number of HMS Grenville and used the Royal Navy flag, but she was intercepted by the heavy cruiser Canarias and other ships. After two frustrated attempts, she was badly hit and forced into Gibraltar on 29 August 1938, where she underwent repairs while looking for an opportunity to try again.
The governor of Gibraltar did not want to intern the ship or to expel it. The working class of Gibraltar, sympathetic to the Republican cause, wanted it repaired and allowed to put to sea.[1] The Republican consul Francisco Barn?s Salinas had difficulty obtaining permission from the British authorities for the sailors to disembark, which was only allowed under tight restrictions, and repairs had to be made clandestinely.[2] On the night of 29/30 December, she left Gibraltar prepared for a new attempt, but was spotted by the gunboat Calvo Sotelo. A close-range battle ensued between the destroyer and several rebel ships, including the gunboat-minelayer Vulcano. She was beached at Catalan Bay in Gibraltar to avoid being sunk or captured. The crew were returned to the Republican side by the British government.
Post Civil War
In March 1939 the British government, delivered the ship to the Nationalists. She was taken back by the gunboat Calvo Sotelo.
Jos? Luis D?ez was decommissioned and scrapped in 1965.

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IMO Number
Type of ship Destroyer
Year of build and builder 1929 SECN, Naval Dockyard, Cartagena, Spain
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Added on 30/07/2016
Dimension 1200 x 871
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