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GENERAL RIVERA gunboat (1884)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
General Rivera     Arsenal Montevideo   1884 1884 explosion 10.1903

  

Displacement normal, t

300

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

35.9

Breadth, m

6.35

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

1

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

360

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 149/27 RK L/30 C/83, 1 x 1 - 57/27?

Complement

75

Project history: Iron-hulled gunboat.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: General Rivera sunk by internal explosion in October 1903.

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