NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Pilcomayo			Rennie, Greenwich, UK		8.1875	1876	salvage vessel 1896
Bermejo			Rennie, Greenwich, UK		6.1875	1876	transport vessel 1898
República		421	Laird, Birkenhead, UK		5.1875	1876	transport vessel 1911
Constitución		422	Laird, Birkenhead, UK		5.1875	1876	transport vessel 1915

Technical data

Displacement normal, t
Displacement full, t	420
Length, m	32.0 pp 33.5 oa
Breadth, m	9.14
Draught, m	2.36 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HC, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	430
Max speed, kts	9.7
Fuel, t	coal 42
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 279/14 Armstrong 26.5-ton MLR, 2 x 1 - 79/25 RK L/27 C/73
Complement	100

Standard scale images

Project history

Rendel 'flatiron' gunboats which had an iron hull with four watertight compartments but no double bottom. The single Armstrong MLR gun was mounted on a movable platform forward which could be lowered into a well when at sea. It had no traverse and was aimed by moving the ship. The two Krupp BLR guns were on the upper deck. These vessels had one funnel set well aft.

Modernizations

1880, all: + 2 x 1 - 63/42 Nordenfelt

Naval service

No significant events.

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