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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Bogotá (ex-Tonsberg I, ex-Helgoland, ex-M139)			Tecklenborg, Geestemünde, Germany	1918	12.3.1919	6/1919 // 2.1933	collision 1946
Córdoba (ex-Dixmude, ex-Dinnard, ex-Grille, ex-M158)			Nordseeerke, Emden, Germany	1918	1920	1920 // 2.1933	sunk as target 11.6.1937

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	508
Displacement full, t	630
Length, m	56.1 wl 59.6 oa
Breadth, m	7.30
Draught, m	2.15
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	1850
Max speed, kts	16
Fuel, t	coal 160
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14, 2 x 1 - 75/35 M1915-18, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76
Complement	40

Standard scale images

Project history

Former German minesweepers M139 and M158 of M1916 type. By the First World War end they remained incomplete, and completed in 1919 as self-propelled barges Helgoland and Grille; in 1922 they were sold to Norway and France respectively as Tonsberg I and Dinnard (later Dixmude). In 1932 they were bought by Colombia in France, received names Bogotá and Córdoba and armed. Boilers can use coal and fire wood. Ships arrived with French crews to Brazilian port Belen 24.2.1933. They were used as patrols and river gunboats.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Córdoba in 1937 was stricken and 11.6.1937 sunk as target by destroyers Antioqoia and Caldas. Bogota was lost in 1946 as a result of collision.