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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Cochrane			Earle, Hull, UK	4.1872	23.1.1874	12.1874	TS 1898, hulk 1908
Valparaiso, 9.1876- Blanco Encalada			Earle, Hull, UK	1873	8.5.1875	1875	sunk 23.4.1891

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3370
Displacement full, t	3560
Length, m	64.0 pp
Breadth, m	13.9
Draught, m	6.65 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HC, 6 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	2920
Max speed, kts	12.7
Fuel, t	coal 500
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	iron; belt: 229, ends: 152 - 114, battery: 203 - 152, CT: 76
Armament	6 x 1 - 229/15 Armstrong 12-ton MLR, 1 x 1 - 121/22 Armstrong 40pdr 35cwt BLR, 1 x 1 - 66/29 Armstrong 9pdr BLR, 1 x 1 - 63/19 7pdr BLR, 1 x 1 - 25/42 Nordenfelt
Complement	300

Standard scale images

Project history

Iron-hulled, barque-rigged ships with fighting lops on the main- and foremasts. They had a ram bow and one funnel. The battery amidships overhung the ships' sides, which were recessed fore and aft. There was a double bottom under the magazines, engine and boiler rooms, and the hull was sheathed in wood and zinc. The ships were designed by Sir Edward Reed.

Ship protection

The complete belt was 229mm thick at the lwl amidships, with a 152mm strake above and below, reducing to 114mm at the ends. The lower strake of the battery armour was 203-178mm thick with a 152mm strake above it. There was 13mm plating on the upper and main decks.

Modernizations

1886, Blanco Encalada: was re-armed with 6 x 1 - 203/30 Armstrong K1, 4 x 1 - 82/27 14pdr BLR

1889, Cochrane: machinery was replaced (2 HTE, 6 new cylindrical boilers, 4300hp, 13.6kts); armament consisted of 6 x 1 - 203/30 Armstrong K1, 3 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss QF, 6 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 3 - 356 TT (2 bow, 1 stern)

1898, Cochrane: was converted to TS.

Naval service

Blanco Encalada was sunk 23.4.1891 by torpedo gunboats Almirante Lynch and Almirante Condell at Caldera. Cochrane was converted to TS in 1898 and hulked in 1908.