NAVYPEDIA

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

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Paraná		408	Laird, Birkenhead, UK	1872	1873	1874	transport vessel 1900
Uruguay		409	Laird, Birkenhead, UK	1872	6.3.1874	7.1874	survey vessel 1903

Technical data

Displacement normal, t
Displacement full, t	515
Length, m	46.3 pp
Breadth, m	7.62
Draught, m	3.04 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HC, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	475
Max speed, kts	11
Fuel, t	coal 80
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 x 1 - 178/14 Vavasseur ML
Complement	100

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Project history

Barque-rigged gunboats with one funnel between the masts, a raised forecastle and poop and a clipper bow. They had an iron hull sheathed in wood with five watertight bulkheads, but no double bottom. The 152mm 4.5-ton MLR guns were in the waist fore and aft of the funnel, and the 95mm were on the broadside at the break of the poop. Uruguay received new boilers and was resheathed in teak and zinc in 1889.

Modernizations

1880, both: new armament consisted of 1 x 1 - 152/16 4.5-ton MLR, 2 x 1 - 95/21 20pdr Armstrong BLR

1893, both: new armament consisted of 2 x 1 - 120/41 Armstrong T, 2 x 1 - 63/42 Nordenfelt

Naval service

In 1900 Paraná became a transport vessel, renamed Piedrabuena and wrecked 28.4.1921. Uruguay became survey vessel in 1903. She was hulked in 1926 but reconstructed in 1954 and preserved as memorial.

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