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CHILEAN NAVY (CHILE)

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PILCOMAYO wooden gunboat (1875/1879)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Pilcomayo     Money Wigram, Blackwood, UK 1872 1874 1875 // 11.1879 TS 1890, hulk 1909

 

Displacement normal, t

800

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

55.4 pp

Breadth, m

7.47

Draught, m

3.51 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HC

Power, h. p.

1080

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 147/21 Armstrong 70pdr BLR, 2 x 1 - 121/22 Armstrong 20pdr BLR

Complement

130

Project history: Barque-rigged boat with one funnel. She was completed for Peruvian navy in 1875 and captured by Chilean ironclad Blanco Encalada 18.11.1879 off Moquegua.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: By 1890 Pilcomayo was a boys' TS.

Pilcomayo

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