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TORPEDO SHIPS

TEMERARIO torpedo gunboats (1891-1894)

Nueva España 1891

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Temerario     Santa Rosalia, Cartagena 1.12.1887 29.10.1889 1891 sold 1920
Nueva España     Arsenal de Carraca 1.12.1887 8.11.1889 1891 discarded 1916
Galicia     La Graña, Ferrol   1891 1894 to Venezuela 9.1898 (Bolivar)
Marqués de Molins     La Graña, Ferrol   27.5.1892 1894 discarded 1922
Martín Alonzo Pinzón (ex-Audaz)     La Graña, Ferrol   1889 1893 discarded 1914
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón     La Graña, Ferrol   1891 1894 discarded 1914
  

Displacement normal, t

562

Displacement full, t

630

Length, m

58.0 pp

Breadth, m

6.73

Draught, m

3.16 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 locomotive + 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

2600

Max speed, kts

19

Fuel, t

coal 130

Endurance, nm(kts)

3400(10)

Armour, mm

steel; deck: 13

Armament

2 x 1 - 120/35 Hontoria M1883, 4 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt, 1 x 4 - 25/40 Nordenfelt, 2 x 1 - 356 TT (6)

Complement

91

Project history: Steel-hulled torpedo gunboats. In days of WWI maximal speed did not exceed 13kts.

Ship protection: 13mm protective deck closed only machinery and boilers.

Modernizations: 1918, Marqués de Molins: was reboilered, two funnels were replaced by one; - 2 x 1 - 120/35, 1 x 4 - 25/40, 2 x 1 - 356 TT.

Naval service: No significant events.

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