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PILCOMAYO wooden gunboat (1875/1879)


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Pilcomayo

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Pilcomayo     Money Wigram, Blackwood, UK 1872 1874 1875 // 11.1879 TS 1890, hulk 1909


Technical data


Displacement normal, t800
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

55.4 pp

Breadth, m

7.47

Draught, m

3.51 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery1 HC
Power, h. p.1080
Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 147/21 Armstrong 70pdr BLR, 2 x 1 - 121/22 Armstrong 20pdr BLR

Complement130


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<i>Pilcomayo</i>
Pilcomayo


Project history

Barque-rigged boat with one funnel. She was completed for Peruvian navy in 1875 and captured by Chilean ironclad Blanco Encalada 18.11.1879 off Moquegua.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

By 1890 Pilcomayo was a boys' TS.