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ALVARADO gunboats (1895 / 1898)
Ships
No |
Name |
Yard No | Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comm |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Alvarado |
Clydebank Engine and SB, UK |
7/1895 |
19.9.1895 |
1895 // 8.1898 |
Naval Militia TS 11.1906, stricken 5.1912 |
|
| Sandoval | Clydebank Engine and SB, UK |
7.1895 | 20.9.1895 | 1895 // 9.1898 | TS 10.1900-3/1906, Naval Militia TS 11.1906, stricken 7.1919 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 106 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 33.6 |
| Breadth, m | 4.73 |
| Draught, m | 1.63 |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | 1 VC, 1 cylindrical boiler |
| Power, h. p. | 137 |
| Max speed, kts | 12 |
| Fuel, t | coal 17 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | Alvorado: 1 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III, 1 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I Sandoval: 2 x 1 - 47/40-45 Driggs-Schroeder Mk I/II |
| Complement | 33 |
Project history
Ex-Spanish small gunboats, captured at Cuba. Names were unchanged.
Modernizations
1900s, both: were re-engineed with VTE, 670hp, 19kts.
Naval service
No significant events.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014
