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Cartagena 1930

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Barranquilla	CF31		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK		10.5.1930	1931	stricken 1970
Santa Marta	CF32		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK		16.4.1930	1931	stricken 12.1962
Cartagena	CF33		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK		26.3.1930	1931	stricken 1987

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	142
Displacement full, t
Length, m	39.6 pp 41.8 oa
Breadth, m	7.16
Draught, m	0.84
No of shafts	2 in tunnels
Machinery	2 Gardner semi-diesels
Power, h. p.	600
Max speed, kts	15.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil 24
Endurance, nm(kts)	2100(15)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt EOC N, 4 x 1 - 7.7/94
Complement	39

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Project history

The successful ships, ordered 31.8.1929 at 195.000$ for one boat. Hull abreast machinery and magazines had bulletproof plating. Gunboats shown magnificent seaworthiness for river ships, having made with British crews self-supporting 24-day passage through Atlantic with one stop at St.Vincent.

Modernizations

1942-1945, all: + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4

1960s, all: - 1 x 1 - 20/70; + 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3

Naval service

Barranquilla served on Magdalena, two others on Amazon and Putumayo.