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BUENOS AIRES protected cruiser (1896)


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Buenos Aires 1911 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Buenos Aires   612 Armstrong, Elswick, UK 2.1893 18.5.1895 2.1896 stricken 5.1932


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

4788

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

120.7 pp 129.2 oa

Breadth, m

12.9

Draught, m

5.61 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 8 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

17000

Max speed, kts

24

Fuel, t

coal 1000

Endurance, nm(kts)6210(10)
Armour, mm

steel; deck: 38 with 127 - 76 slopes, glacis: 127, shields: 114, CT: 152

Armament

2 x 1 - 203/45 Armstrong S, 4 x 1 - 152/45 Armstrong BB, 6 x 1 - 120/44 Armstrong Y, 16 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 5 - 450 TT (1 bow, 4 beam)

Complement

350



Standard scale images


<i>Buenos Aires</i> 1910
Buenos Aires 1910


Graphics


<i>Buenos Aires </i>1911 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Buenos Aires 1911 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

Most modern protected cruiser of Argentina Navy before WWI, similar to Chilean Blanco Encalada. She was designed by main designer of Armstrong P. Watts; one of most successful "Elswick" cruisers. Hull was wood-sheathed, flush-decked wuth complete double bottom.

Ship protection

Protective deck ran the length of the ship and had 127 (over machinery)-38mm flat part with 127-76mm slopes.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

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