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Veinticinco de Mayo 1900 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Veinticinco de Mayo (ex-Nicochea)		541	Armstrong, Elswick, UK	18.6.1885	5.5.1890	2.1891	stricken 1921

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3180
Displacement full, t	3500
Length, m	100.6 pp 107.9 oa
Breadth, m	13.4
Draught, m	4.88 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	14050
Max speed, kts	22.4
Fuel, t	coal 620
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000(10)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 89 - 25 with 114 - 89mm slopes, glacis: 127, shields: 51, CT: 102
Armament	1 x 1 - 209/32 MRK L/35 C/86, 8 x 1 - 120/37 SK L/40 C/88, 12 x 1 - 47/37 SK L/40 C/91, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	320

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Project history

Steel-hulled, with a double bottom except in the boiler and engine rooms.  The 21cm Krupp BLR guns were mounted on the raised forecastle and poop, and the 12cm BLR guns were mounted in the waist. There was one fixed bow TT, and two on the main deck broadsides on the quarter. There were two masts with military tops and two broad funnels. She was laid down as the stock cruiser Nicochea and the name was changed when she was purchased by Argentina. Armstrong proposed fitting a 2.1m wide armour belt against QF gunfire but she was completed to the original design. The ship was built to a design by Philip Watts.

Ship protection

The protective deck ran the length of the ship, 89mm on the lower slopes, 114mm on the upper slopes, and 89mm over the engine room and 44mm elsewhere on the flat except at the ends where it reduced to 25mm.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.