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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.

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