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COLOMBIAN NAVY (COLOMBIA)

OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

CARABOBO patrol gunboats (1925)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Carabobo     C A de St. Nazaire-Penhoët, Rouen, France   8.8.1925 1925 stricken 1961
Boyacá, 1933/37- Junín     C A de St. Nazaire-Penhoët, Rouen, France   8.7.1925 1925 stricken 1961
Pichincha     C A de St. Nazaire-Penhoët, Rouen, France   5.9.1925 1925 stricken 1961

  

Displacement standard, t

120

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

33.0

Breadth, m

6.00

Draught, m

2.50

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 Thornycroft boiler

Power, h. p.

300

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

oil 50

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/35 M1915-18, 1 x 1 - 37/50 M1925, 2 x 1 - 8.80

Complement

37

Project history: Patrol coast defence ships.

Modernizations: 1942-1945, all: - 1 x 1 - 37/50; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4

Naval service: Pichincha served on Amazon and Putumayo.

Pichincha 1934

Junín 1938

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