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NAVY OF VENEZUELA (VENEZUELA)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

auxiliary gunboats of late XIX - early XX centuries

Restaurador 1904

less than 1000 t of displacement:

Restaurador (ex-Atlanta), 1920- General Salóm (1884, 750, 1-76/40, 1900 - 7.12.1902, 2.1903 - 1946); Jose Felix Ribas (ex-Zumbador) (1894, 300, 1903 - 1930); Aragua (, 154, 1929 - 7.1941)

Project history: Restaurador was former American private yacht Atlanta, sold to Venezuela in 1900 and armed.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: 7.12.1902 Restaurador was seized by German Navy and temporarily commissioned by them. She was returned to Venezuela 24.2.1903.

Aragua 1933

Jose Felix Ribas

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