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Matanzas 1948

Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
Matanzas Las Villas	Casa de la Sra Viuda de Ruiz de Gamiz, Habana: Matanzas, Las Villas	1912: Matanzas, Las Villas	none	none	1942: Las Villas 1973: Matanzas

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	80
Displacement full, t
Length, m	30.5
Breadth, m	5.49
Draught, m	1.30
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, Babcock boiler
Power, h. p.	200
Max speed, kts	12
Fuel, t	coal 20
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 37/40 Mk II/III
Complement	20

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Project history

Small wooden ships ordered under the 1910 program. They were built by national shipbuilders: Habana and Pinar del Rio as naval gunboats, and Matanzas and Las Villas as revenue cutters. To beginning of WWII ships can make no more than 7kts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Because of bad technical condition Las Villas was broken up in beginning of WWII.