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AMÉRICA river gunboat (1904)


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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 shafts2
Machinery2 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

Complement26


Graphics


<i>América </i>1935
América 1935
<i>América </i>after WWII
América after WWII


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.