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OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

MALVINAS gunboat (1885)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Malvinas     Schichau, Elbing, Germany   1885 1885 discarded 1912

  

Displacement normal, t

400

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

43.0

Breadth, m

6.96

Draught, m

3.05 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

280

Max speed, kts

8

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 small QF

Complement

 

Project history: Iron-hulled gunboat. Built as merchant steamer but purchased and armed by Uruguay.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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