Uruguay 1900
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Paraná | 408 | Laird, Birkenhead, UK | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | transport vessel 1900 | |
| Uruguay | 409 | Laird, Birkenhead, UK | 1872 | 6.3.1874 | 7.1874 | survey vessel 1903 |
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Displacement normal, t |
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Displacement full, t |
515 |
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Length, m |
46.3 pp |
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Breadth, m |
7.62 |
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Draught, m |
3.04 max |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
1 HC, 2 cylindrical boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
475 |
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Max speed, kts |
11 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 80 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
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Armament |
4 x 1 - 178/14 Vavasseur ML |
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Complement |
100 |
Project history: Barque-rigged gunboats with one funnel between the masts, a raised forecastle and poop and a clipper bow. They had an iron hull sheathed in wood with five watertight bulkheads, but no double bottom. The 152mm 4.5-ton MLR guns were in the waist fore and aft of the funnel, and the 95mm were on the broadside at the break of the poop. Uruguay received new boilers and was resheathed in teak and zinc in 1889.
Modernizations: 1880, both: new armament consisted of 1 x 1 - 152/16 4.5-ton MLR, 2 x 1 - 95/21 20pdr Armstrong BLR
1893, both: new armament consisted of 2 x 1 - 120/41 Armstrong T, 2 x 1 - 63/42 Nordenfelt
Naval service: In 1900 Paraná became a transport vessel, renamed Piedrabuena and wrecked 28.4.1921. Uruguay became survey vessel in 1903. She was hulked in 1926 but reconstructed in 1954 and preserved as memorial.
Uruguay as preseved
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014