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COLOMBIAN NAVY (COLOMBIA)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

gunboats of XIX-early XX centuries

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Lautaro (ex-Rimac) 16.11.1872 // 1902 Evans, Liverpool, UK 1805 88.9ppx12.2   1VTE   sunk 20.1.1902

100 - 1000 BRT

Chiquito (,, 1900s-1900s); Clapet (1880s, 230-500, 1900s-1900s); Hércules (,, 1900s-1900s); Marquin (,, 1902-1905); Bogotá (1884, 676, 1902-1905)

Project history: Merchant vessels converted to gunboats for service off Panama coast.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Lautaro was sunk by insurgent ships in battle in Panama Bay 20.1.1902.

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