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SPANISH NAVY (SPAIN)

OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

HERNAN CORTÉS gunboats (1895)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Hernan Cortés     Clydebank, Govan, UK   24.8.1895 1895 discarded 5.1925
Vasco Núñez de Balboa     Clydebank, Govan, UK   12.9.1895 1895 discarded 11.1926
Pizarro     Clydebank, Govan, UK   5.9.1895 1895 scuttled 8.1898

  

Displacement normal, t

295

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

47.4

Breadth, m

6.60

Draught, m

1.93

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

352

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal 67

Endurance, nm(kts) 2900(10)

Armament

2 x 1 - 75/42 Nordenfelt, 2 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim-Nordenfelt

Complement

53

Project history: Small colonial gunboats.

Modernizations: 1890s, all: - 2 x 1 - 37/27; + 2 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt.

Naval service: Pizarro was blown up and scuttled by own crew to avoid capture in early August, 1898 off Nuevitas (Cuba).

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