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Los Andes   Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
El Plata		412	Laird, Birkenhead, UK		29.8.1874	1875	stricken 11.1927
Los Andes		413	Laird, Birkenhead, UK		29.10.1874	1875	stricken 11.1927

Technical data

Displacement normal, t
Displacement full, t	1500
Length, m	56.7 wl
Breadth, m	13.4
Draught, m	3.20 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VC, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	750
Max speed, kts	9.5
Fuel, t	coal 120
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	iron; belt: 152, ends: 114 - 102, deck: 30, breastwork: 203, turret: 229 - 203
Armament	1 x 2 - 254/13 Armstrong 300pdr 12.5-ton MLR
Complement	126

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Project history

Low-freeboard monitors with all-hull-long narrow superstructure. To decreasing of target area in the battle ships can to receive ballast into double bottom tanks, increasing a draught by 2m.

Ship protection

The belt over the machinery and magazine was 152mm thick and 1.5m high (0.9m above and 0.6m below wl), reducing to 102mm at ship ends. Funnel casing was 114mm. There was 203mm breastwork round the turret. The area round gunports was protected by 229mm iron plates, rest parts of turret had 203mm protection.

Modernizations

1883, both: - 1 x 2 - 254/13; + 1 x 2 - 203/30 Armstrong E, 2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 4 x 1 - 25/42 Nordenfelt

1890s, both: + 2 x 1 - 120/40 Armstrong P

Naval service

No significant events.