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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Misiones		1018	Yarrow, Poplar, UK	1895	22.8.1896	7.1897	stricken 10.1930
Santa Fé		1019	Yarrow, Poplar, UK	1895	1896	10.1896	wrecked 19.4.1897
Entre Rios		1020	Yarrow, Poplar, UK	1895	11.7.1896	12.1896	stricken 10.1930
Corrientes		1021	Yarrow, Poplar, UK	1895	10.10.1896	1.1898	stricken 10.1930

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	280
Displacement full, t	340
Length, m	57.9
Breadth, m	5.94
Draught, m	2.23
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 6 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	4200
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 80
Endurance, nm(kts)	900(15)
Armour, mm	steel; belt: 20 - 13
Armament	1 x 1 - 75/46 Maxim-Nordenfelt 14pdr 18cwt, 3 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt, 3 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim-Nordenfelt?, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	54

Standard scale images

Project history

Steel-hulled destroyers with turtleback-form forecastle and three funnels. Contract speed was 26kts for 3hrs, but ships had difficulty achieving it.

Ship protection

Armour plating extended over the boilers and machinery at the waterline.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Santa Fé wrecked 19.4.1897 on Rio de La Plata off Colonia del Sacramento during a storm.

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

And also many thanks to Iván Dubaniewicz for correction of information on this page.