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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Almirante Lynch, 1910- Tomé			Laird, Birkenhead, UK	1889	1890	1890	stricken 1919
Almirante Condell, 1910- Alcahuano			Laird, Birkenhead, UK	1889	1890	1890	stricken 1919

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	713
Displacement full, t
Length, m	70.1 pp
Breadth, m	8.38
Draught, m	2.53
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 locomotive boilers
Power, h. p.	Almirante Lynch: 4532 Almirante Condell: 4275
Max speed, kts	Almirante Lynch: 20.3 Almirante Condell: 20.6
Fuel, t	coal 150
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 25
Armament	3 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 - 356 TT (bow), 4 x 1 - 356 TT
Complement	87

Standard scale images

Project history

These were steel-hulled boats with a ram bow, raised forecastle and poop, and two raked masts and funnels. Two 76mm guns were mounted en échelon on the forecastle and the other one on the poop. They had one fixed bow TT and two trainable tubes on each broadside amidships.

Ship protection

There was 25mm steel plating over the engine and boiler rooms.

Modernizations

1900, both: boilers were replaced by 4 Belleville; - 3 x 1 - 76/40, 4 x 1 - 47/40; + 6 x 1 - 57/50 Vickers

Naval service

No significant events.