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Uruguay 1916

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Uruguay			Vulkan, Stettin, Germany	1908	12.4.1910	8.1910	stricken 5.1951

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1400
Displacement full, t
Length, m	85.0 pp
Breadth, m	9.40
Draught, m	3.60 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	5700
Max speed, kts	23
Fuel, t	coal 210
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(12)
Armour, mm	nickel steel; deck: 17
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/45 Krupp QF, 4 x 1 - 76/40 EOC N, 6 x 1 - 37/40 Vickers, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	125

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Project history

Ship of intermediate type, usually classified as a torpedo gunboat, in Navy of Uruguay was rated as cruiser. She was built in Germany (Stettin), but armed with guns of Škoda and Armstrong. Uruguay arrived to Montevideo 20.8.1910.

Ship protection

Machinery spaces were protected by 17mm deck.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Uruguay was used also for training duties, she was stricken in May, 1951 and sold for scrap in August, 1962.