Descubierta-class corvette

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Infanta Elena (P-76), in 2008
Class overview
Name	Descubierta class corvette
Builders	Bazan, Ferrol & Cartagena
Operators	Spanish Navy  Egyptian Navy  Royal Moroccan Navy
Built	1975-1984
Completed	9
Active	3
Retired	6
General characteristics
Type	Corvette
Displacement	1,233 tons standard, 1,482 tons full load
Length	88.8 m (291 ft)
Beam	10.4 m (34 ft)
Draught	3.8 m (12 ft)
Propulsion	2 shaft, 4 MTU-Bazán 16V 956 TB91 diesel engines, 16,000 hp (12,000 kW)
Speed	25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range	4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement	118
Armament	8 - Harpoon SSM (2 × 4) 8 - Aspide SAM (1 × 8) 1 - 76 mm gun 2 - 40 mm guns (2 × 1) 2 - Bofors 375mm Anti-submarine mortar (1 × 2) 6 - 12.75 in anti submarine torpedo tubes (2 × 3)

The Descubierta-class corvettes were a series of corvettes built for the Spanish Navy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These ships were also sold to the Egyptian Navy and the Moroccan Navy. The ships were designed in cooperation with the German company Blohm & Voss, based on the João Coutinho-class corvettes which were designed in the late 1960s for the Portuguese Navy, by the Portuguese naval engineer Rogério de Oliveira. A larger version was proposed for a second batch but the Spanish Navy chose to build the American Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates under licence instead.