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BAIRE gunboat (1906)

Baire 1914

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Baire     Klawitter, Danzig, Germany   1906 1906 disarmed 1942, discarded 1948

 

Displacement normal, t

500

Displacement full, t

510

Length, m

59.7

Breadth, m

7.01

Draught, m

2.74

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, Babcock boilers

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

coal 120

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I

Complement 76

Project history: Two-masted one-funneled gunboat, first combat ship of Cuban Navy. She was used also as a presidential yacht.

Modernizations: 1917: - 2 x 1 - 57/40, 2 x 1 - 47/40; + 4 x 1 - 76/50 Mk III/V/VI, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Mk II/III, 2 x 1 - 7.6/90

Naval service: During WWII Baire was disarmed and was used as hulk as nasty condition excluded serious repair.

Baire 1921

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