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The Allende class is a series of four anti-submarine frigates used by the Mexican Navy. Allende-class frigates are former United States Navy Knox-class-ships which were acquired beginning in 1997. They form the Mexican Gulf Fleet of the Mexican Navy. They are used for anti-submarine and offshore patrol duties.
The ship was transferred to the Mexican Navy by sale on 29 January 1997 along with sister ship Marvin Shields, and was renamed Ignacio Allende, with the pennant number E50. The two frigates arrived in Mexico on 16 August 1997 and entered service on 23 November 1998. [5] The ship changed pennant number, to F211, in 2001. [5]
Allende-class frigates. The list of Mexican Navy ships comprises all of the vessels that make up the Mexican Navy. The Mexican Navy operates one frigate, two missile boats, and a number of patrol ships for both offshore and inshore patrol. The Mexican Navy also has two tank landing ships at its disposal.
The 46 Knox-class frigates were the largest, last, and most numerous of the US Navy's second-generation anti-submarine warfare (ASW) escorts. Originally laid down as ocean escorts (formerly called destroyer escorts), they were all redesignated as frigates on 30 June 1975, in the 1975 ship reclassification plan and their hull designation changed from 'DE' to 'FF'.
The ship was renamed ARM Victoria by the Mexican Navy and was commissioned 16 March 2000 as an Allende-class frigate. [7] The ship was decommissioned in 2016. As of February 2024, it was awaiting disposal with her sister ships at Tuxpan .
Ignacio Allende commanded the troops at this position. Among the insurgent forces were 20,000 light cavalry, 3,000 armed with rifles, 60,000 armed with spears, slings, and arrows. Calleja's forces, which numbered between 5,000 and 8,000 but were better equipped than the insurgent forces, arrived at the Bridge on 16 January.
Allende statue in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua. Posthumous portrait of Ignacio Allende (1769-1811). Allende was born on January 21, 1769, to a wealthy Spanish criollo family in San Miguel el Grande in Guanajuato, Mexico. His father was Domingo Narciso de Allende, a wealthy trader. In 1802, he joined the army, serving under general Félix María ...
The Capture of Alhóndiga de Granaditas was a military action carried out in Guanajuato, viceroyalty of New Spain, on September 28, 1810, between the royalist soldiers of the province and the insurgents commanded by Miguel Hidalgo and Ignacio Allende.