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América 1935

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
América	CF15		Tranmere Bay, Birkenhead, UK		1904	1904	preserved 1984

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	240
Displacement full, t
Length, m	40.5
Breadth, m	5.94
Draught, m	1.37
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	350
Max speed, kts	14
Fuel, t	coal 42
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94
Complement	26

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Project history

Gunboat was many times rearmed and served 80 years. Steel hull.

Modernizations

1930s: boilers were converted to oil burning; - 1 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 x 1 - 65/50 Schneider, 2 x 1 - 20/60 Madsen?

1960s: - 2 x 1 - 65/50, 3 x 1 - 47/40, 2 x 1 - 20/60; + 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4

Naval service

In 1984 América was stricken and preserved as museum in Iquitos.