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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Huascár			Laird, Birkenhead, UK	1864	7.10.1865	8.11.1866 // 8.10.1879	submarine depot ship 1917

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2030
Displacement full, t
Length, m	57.9 pp
Breadth, m	10.7
Draught, m	5.56 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HSE, 4 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.	1650
Max speed, kts	12.3
Fuel, t	coal 300
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	iron; belt: 114, ends: 51, turret: 203 - 140, CT: 76
Armament	1 x 2 - 254/14 Armstrong 300pdr 12.5-ton MLR, 2 x 1 - 121/21 Armstrong 40pdr BLR
Complement	170

Standard scale images

Project history

An iron-hulled turret ship with a raised forecastle and poop, a ram bow, two masts, one funnel and a single turret amidships containing two 254mm/14 12.5t Armstrong MLR guns. There was a double bottom beneath the engine and boiler rooms and the magazine, and she had hinged bulwarks amidships that were lowered in action.

Huascár was captured by boarding parties from Chilean ironclads Blanco Encalada and Cochrane in a badly damaged condition on 8.10.79 during battle of Angamos.

Ship protection

The ports had 203mm armour and the rest of the turret was 127mm thick. The belt extended 1.5m above and 0.9m below lwl, and was 114mm thick amidships, tapering to 51mm fore and aft.

Modernizations

1880s: new armament consisted of 1 x 2 - 203/26 Armstrong E, 2 x 1 - 121/21 Armstrong 40pdr BLR, 2 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss, 2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Naval service

Huascár was later fitted as a gunnery training ship and was then preserved as a museum.