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Río de La Plata 1910

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Río de La Plata			Normand, Le Havre, France	1896	17.9.1898	1900	discarded 1931

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1875
Displacement full, t	1950
Length, m	75.0 pp 76.3 oa
Breadth, m	10.8
Draught, m	4.35 mean 4.70 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, Normand-Sigaudy boilers
Power, h. p.	7100 (forced draught)
Max speed, kts	20 (forced draught)
Fuel, t	coal 270
Endurance, nm(kts)	3600(10)
Armour, mm	steel: deck: 15 with 20mm slopes, CT: 120
Armament	2 x 1 - 140/43 Schneider-Canet, 4 x 1 - 100/56 García-Lomas, 6 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt, 2 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim, 2 - 356 TT (beam)
Complement	213

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Project history

Built in France on the means collected by native Spanish, living in Argentina and Uruguay. Sheathed and coppered for overseas service. To the First World War beginning ship has become outdated and was converted to minelayer.

Ship protection

Protection consisted of steel protective deck only.

Modernizations

1920: armament consisted of 2 x 1 - 140/43 Schneider-Canet, 4 x 1 - 105/32 Krupp M1897, mines

1920s: - 2 x 1 - 140/33, 2 x 1 - 105/32

Naval service

Since 1921 Río de La Plata served as seaplane tender at Barcelona.