NAVYPEDIA

Photo

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

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Espora		574	Laird, Birkenhead, UK	1889	4/1890	12.1890	stricken 6.1916
Rosales		575	Laird, Birkenhead, UK	1889	5/1890	12.1890	foundered 9.7.1892

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	520
Displacement full, t
Length, m	61.0 pp 64.0 oa
Breadth, m	7.62
Draught, m	2.51 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 locomotive boilers
Power, h. p.	3420
Max speed, kts	19.4
Fuel, t	coal 130
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 76/46 Maxim-Nordenfelt 14pdr 18cwt, 1 x 1 - 63/42 Nordenfelt, 2 x 1 - 47/42 Nordenfelt, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 2 - 450 TT
Complement	47

Standard scale images

Graphics

Project history

Espora and Rosales were steel-hulled boats with a raised forecastle and poop and two raked masts and funnels. The 76mm Nordenfelt  QF guns were mounted en échelon on the forecastle, with the 8pdr and two 3pdr guns on the poop. There was one fixed bow TT, and the others were in pairs on trainable mountings forward and aft of the second funnel. Espora was reconstructed in 1905, retaining the bow TT and the two 3in guns, but the remaining armament was replaced by 5-3pdr (5 x 1) and the trainable tubes were removed. Her loco boilers were replaced by six Yarrow watertube boilers.

Modernizations

1905, Espora: boilers were replaced by 6 Yarrow; - 1 x 1 - 63/42, 2 x 2 - 450 TT; + 3 x 1 - 47/42 Nordenfelt

Naval service

Rosales foundered during a storm in the mouth of La Plata 9.7.1892.

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