Isla de Luzón 1898
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Isla de Luzón | Armstrong, Elswick, UK | 2/1886 | 13.11.1886 | 9/1887 | scuttled 1.5.1898 | ||
| Isla de Cuba | Armstrong, Elswick, UK | 2/1886 | 11.12.1886 | 9/1887 | scuttled 1.5.1898 | ||
| Marqués de la Ensenada | Arsenal de la Carraca | 24.7.1887 | 25.2.1890 | 1.2.1894 | discarded 5.1900 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1030 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
56.1 pp 60.0 oa |
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Breadth, m |
9.14 |
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Draught, m |
3.84 max |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 HTE, 2 cylindrical boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
2627 |
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Max speed, kts |
15.9 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 160 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Protection, mm | steel; deck: 64 - 25, CT: 51 |
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Armament |
6 x 1 - 120/35 Hontoria M1883, 4 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss, 3 - 356 TT (1 bow, 2 beam) |
| Complement |
164 |
Project history: Steel-hulled, single-funnelled, small protected cruisers
Ship protection: Thin deck protected only machinery.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Isla de Cuba and Isla de Luzón were scuttled 1.5.1898 during the Battle of Manila Bay but raised and repaired by the US Navy under their old names.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014