The Antioquia class of destroyers consisted of two ships, and , used by the navy of Colombia, the Armada Nacional República de Colombia, between 1934 and 1961. Initially constructed at the Lisbon Naval Arsenal as part of the Portuguese Navy's , they were acquired by Colombia before completion in response to the Peruvian purchase of two destroyers during the war with Peru. They arrived too late to see service in the conflict and saw little action during their service lives. They underwent a major refit in the mid-1950s which saw their armament completely redone. Following their removal from service in 1961, they were broken up for scrap. Design and description The Antioquia class was initially a version of the Portuguese Navy's . The design was by the British company Yarrow Shipbuilders, based on that of the Royal Navy's prototype destroyer . The Antioquia-class destroyers were acquired by Colombia before completion but were built to standard Douro-class specifics. The Douro class closely resembled many British designs in the interwar period. The destroyers were long overall and between perpendiculars with a beam of and a mean draught of . The ship had a standard displacement of and was fully loaded. The vessels were powered by three oil-fired Yarrow boilers providing of steam to two Parsons turbines with Curtiss reduction gearing. These turned two shafts and was rated at with a maximum speed of . The destroyers had capacity for of fuel oil and a range of at . The Antioquia class was armed with four BL guns with two mounted forward in single turrets with gun shields and two mounted aft in a similar fashion. 140 rounds were carried for each gun. The destroyers were equipped with three single-mounted "pom-poms" with two on the aft shelter deck and one between the funnels. They were also armed with two quadruple banks of torpedo tubes mounted centrally, two depth charge throwers with twelve depth charges and were fitted for minelaying with 20 naval mines carried. Ships in class Construction and service history Originally ordered by the Portuguese government in 1930 as part of a new building programme. In conjunction with Yarrows, the Lisbon Naval Arsenal of Lisbon was chosen to construct two hulls while Yarrows would provide and install the destroyer's machinery. Named Douro and Tejo, the two hulls constructed in Lisbon were sold to Colombia before completion in response to the Colombia–Peru War,