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PROGRESO cruiser-transport (1907)

Progreso 1914

Progreso  1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Progreso     Odero, Sestri Ponente, Italy   1907 1907 stricken 1947

 

Displacement normal, t

1590

Displacement full, t

1700

Length, m

70.1

Breadth, m

10.3

Draught, m

3.00 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE

Power, h. p.

1400

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal 209

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss

Military load troops

Complement

140

Project history: Really she was an armed merchant vessel.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Progreso was blown up in February, 1915 at Port Progreso, but later was raised and commissioned again as armed transport.

Progreso 1925

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