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Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
	Isla de Luzon (ex-Isla de Luzon)		Armstrong, Elswick, UK	2/1886	13.11.1886	9.1887 // 4.1900	loaned to Naval Militia 12.1907, stricken 7.1919
	Isla de Cuba (ex-Isla de Cuba)		Armstrong, Elswick, UK	2/1886	11.12.1886	9.1887 // 4.1900	loaned to Naval Militia 3.1907, to Venezuela 4.1912 (Mariscal Sucre)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	Isla de Luzon: 1020 Isla de Cuba: 950
Displacement full, t
Length, m	Isla de Luzon: 59.4 Isla de Cuba: 60.0
Breadth, m	9.14
Draught, m	Isla de Luzon: 3.47 mean Isla de Cuba: 3.22 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HTE, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	Isla de Luzon: 535 Isla de Cuba: 800
Max speed, kts	Isla de Luzon: 11.2 Isla de Cuba: 13
Fuel, t	coal 160
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 64 - 25
Armament	4 x 1 - 102/40 Mk III/IV/V/VI, 4 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III, 3 - 356 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, aw)
Complement	137

Standard scale images

Project history

Scuttled by the Spaniards at the Battle of Manila and salved, these ships had the 102mm guns on forecastle and poop.

Protection

there was a 64-25mm deck.

Modernizations

1905, Isla de Cuba: - 4 x 1 - 102/40, 3-356 TT; + 6 x 1 - 76/50 Mk III/V/VI

1911, Isla de Luzon: + 2 x 1 - 47/40-45 Driggs-Schroeder Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I; boilers were replaced by 2 Babcock & Wilcox

1911, Isla de Cuba: - 6 x 1 - 76/50, 2 x 1 - 57/50; + 2 x 1 - 102/40 Mk III/IV/V/VI, 6 x 1 - 47/40-45 Driggs-Schroeder Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I

Naval service

Isla de Luzon served with the Louisiana and Illinois Naval Militia 1907-1918, and finally with the Naval Torpedo Station as a yard craft.