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RECALDE gunboats (1911-1912)

Recalde 1914

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Recalde     SECN, Cartagena 1909 31.12.1910 1911 discarded 1931
Laya     SECN, Cartagena 11.1909 3.8.1911 12.1911 sunk 15.6.1938
Bonifaz     SECN, Cartagena 1910 1911 1911 discarded 1931
Lauria     SECN, Cartagena 12.1910 3.4.1912 8.1912 stricken 5.1940

  

Displacement normal, t

787

Displacement full, t

811

Length, m

65.5

Breadth, m

9.14

Draught, m

2.98 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

13.5

Fuel, t

coal 160

Endurance, nm(kts) 3000(10)

Armament

4 x 1 - 76/50 Vickers Mk TR

Complement

130

Project history: Four ships of this class were built for colonial service under the law from 7.1.1908. Weak unsuccessful ships with low stability, used basically as patrols.

Modernizations: 1937, Laya: + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon M36

Naval service: After beginning of Civil war Laya at Tangiers was transferred under Republican control. Gunboat was sunk by aircraft of Nationalists at Valencia 15.6.1938. She was salvaged 28.2.1940, stricken 13.3.1940 and sold for scrap. Lauria was captured by troops of Nationalists at Cadiz 21.7.1936 and commissioned by them. 8.5.1940 Lauria was stricken and converted to a hulk at Cartagena.

Recalde

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