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COLOMBIAN NAVY (COLOMBIA)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

auxiliary gunboats of inter-war period

Mariscal Sucre 1937

100 - 1000 BRT

Mariscal Sucre (ex-Flying Fox, ex-Winchester) (1909, 125, 2-76/40, 3.1933 - 1961)

Project history: Former American private yacht, built in United Kingdom, at first named Winchester, then Flying Fox. She was bought by Colombia in the USA in the beginning of 1933 and arrived Brazilian Belen 5.3.1933.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Mariscal Sucre 1938

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