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OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

PONCE DE LEON gunboats (1896)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Ponce de Leon     Thompson, Clydebank, UK   9.1895 1896 collision 10.1916
Diego Velasques     Thompson, Clydebank, UK   9.1895 1896 to Venezuela 1899 (Miranda)

  

Displacement normal, t

200

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

41.4

Breadth, m

5.80

Draught, m

1.83

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

230

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal 35
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt

Complement

38

Project history: Small steel-hulled gunboats.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Ponce de Leon collided in October 1916 with sailing vessel San Jose near mouth of Guadalquivir river and sank.

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