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CHILEAN NAVY (CHILE)

TORPEDO SHIPS

GLAURA torpedo boats (1879-1881)

Names

Janequeo

Glaura

Guale

Rucumilla

Tegualda

Janequeo

Builders

Yarrow, Poplar, UK: Janaqueo, Glaura, Guale, Rucumilla, Tegualda, Janequeo

Commissioned

1879: Janequeo

1881: Janequeo, Guale, Tegualda

1882: Glaura, Rucumilla

Losses

Janequeo (25.5.1880)

Transfers

None

Discarding

1885: Glaura

1891: Janequeo, Tegualda

1899: Guale

1902: Rucumilla

  

Displacement normal, t

35

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

30.5

Breadth, m

3.81

Draught, m

2.06 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HSE, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

400

Max speed, kts

18 - 19

Fuel, t

coal 9

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 2 - 25/42 Nordenfelt, 2 spar torpedoes

Complement

15

Project history: Steel-hulled boats with two funnels and one outrigger for the spar torpedoes.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Janequeo was sunk on 25.5.1880. Although the first Janequeo was salvaged she was not returned to service but was replaced by an identical vessel of the same name.

Ivan Gogin, 2015