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Alanvzla Sergeant Major Registered: August 2006 Posts: 450	Venezuelan Navy
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Was this ship always in the Venezuelan Navy ?

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Alanvzla
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Registered: August 2006
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Fri 4 1, 2008 19:21

--Copy and pasted form the Venezuelan Navy Official Web page--
(...)La década de los 50 abre las puertas a buques de fabricación nueva: Un contrato celebrado el 29 de Junio de 1950 entre el Gobierno Nacional y los directores de los Astilleros VICKERS-ARMSTROGS COMPANY LIMITED DE BARROW-IN-FURNESS, situado en Gran Bretaña establece la construcción de modernas unidades de combate. Ellas fueron tres destructores pesados denominados: ARV. “NUEVA ESPARTA” (D-11), ARV. “ZULIA” (D-21) y ARV. “ARAGUA” (D-31), los cuales arribaron al país entre los años 1953 y 1954(...)

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The decade of the 50's opened the gates to new-fabricated ships: a contract signed on June 29, 1950 between the National Government and the directors of VICKERS-ARMSTRONG company Limited of BARROW-IN-FURNESS shipyards located on Great Britain, stablished the construction of new combat units, these were three heavy destroyers denominated ARV. "Nueva Esparta" (D-11), ARV. "Zulia" (D-21) and ARV. "Aragua" (D-31), which arrived the country between 1953 and 1954

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