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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Almirante Simpson			Laird, Birkenhead, UK	1895	1896	1896	to Ecuador 1907 (Libertador Bolivar)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	800
Displacement full, t
Length, m	73.2 pp
Breadth, m	8.38
Draught, m	4.27 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	4500
Max speed, kts	21.5
Fuel, t	coal 150
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 25, CT: 51
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/40 Armstrong P, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement

Standard scale images

Project history

Steel-hulled torpedo gunboat. She had a ram bow, a raised forecastle and poop, two masts and two funnels set very close together. The 120mm Armstrong QF guns were mounted on the forecastle and poop. One TT was fixed in the bow, one was in a trainable mounting ahead of the funnels to starboard, and the third in a trainable mounting abaft the funnels to port.

Ship protection

There was 25mm steel plating over the engine and boiler rooms.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

She was sold to Ecuador in 1907 and renamed Libertador Bolivar.