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DIEZ DE OCTUBRE gunboats (1911)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Diez de Octubre (10 de Octubre)     Cramp, Philadelphia, USA   1911 1911 discarded 1946
Veinte y Cuatro de Febrero (24 de Febrero)     Cramp, Philadelphia, USA   1911 1911 discarded 1940

 

Displacement normal, t

218

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

33.6

Breadth, m

6.10

Draught, m

2.40

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, Babcock boilers

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal 50

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Mk II/III

Complement 39

Project history: Two boats of this class were ordered under the 1910 programme.

Modernizations: 1917, both: - 2 x 1 - 37/40; + 2 x 1 - 47/40 Mk I/II

Naval service: To 1940 9 de Octubre was in extremely shabby condition because of what she was disarmed and disengined.

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