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CUBAN NAVY (CUBA)

COAST GUARD

MATANZAS coast guard patrol vessels (1912)

Names

Matanzas

Las Villas

Builders

Casa de la Sra Viuda de Ruiz de Gamiz, Habana: Matanzas, Las Villas

Commissioned

1912: Matanzas, Las Villas

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1942: Las Villas

1973: Matanzas

 

Displacement normal, t

80

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

30.5

Breadth, m

5.49

Draught, m

1.30

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, Babcock boiler

Power, h. p.

200

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal 20

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 37/40 Mk II/III

Complement 20

Project history: Small wooden ships ordered under the 1910 program. They were built by national shipbuilders: Habana and Pinar del Rio as naval gunboats, and Matanzas and Las Villas as revenue cutters. To beginning of WWII ships can make no more than 7kts.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Because of bad technical condition Las Villas was broken up in beginning of WWII.

Matanzas 1948

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