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Matanzas 1948

Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

Matanzas

Las Villas

Casa de la Sra Viuda de Ruiz de Gamiz, Habana: Matanzas, Las Villas

1912: Matanzas, Las Villas

none

none

1942: Las Villas

1973: Matanzas



Technical data


Displacement normal, t80
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

30.5

Breadth, m5.49
Draught, m

1.30

No of shafts

1

Machinery1 VTE, Babcock boiler
Power, h. p.200
Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, tcoal 20
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 37/40 Mk II/III

Complement20


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<i>Matanzas </i>1948
Matanzas 1948


Project history

Small wooden ships ordered under the 1910 program. They were built by national shipbuilders: Habana and Pinar del Rio as naval gunboats, and Matanzas and Las Villas as revenue cutters. To beginning of WWII ships can make no more than 7kts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Because of bad technical condition Las Villas was broken up in beginning of WWII.