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BAIRE gunboat (1906)


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Baire 1921

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Baire     Klawitter, Danzig, Germany   1906 1906 disarmed 1942, discarded 1948


Technical data


Displacement normal, t500
Displacement full, t510
Length, m

59.7
Breadth, m

7.01
Draught, m

2.74
No of shafts

1
Machinery

1 VTE, Babcock boilers
Power, h. p.

1200
Max speed, kts

14
Fuel, tcoal 120
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I
Complement76


Standard scale images


<i>Baire</i> 1914
Baire 1914


Graphics


<i>Baire</i> 1921
Baire 1921


Project history

Two-masted one-funneled gunboat, first combat ship of Cuban Navy. She was used also as a presidential yacht.

Modernizations

1917: - 2 x 1 - 57/40, 2 x 1 - 47/40; + 4 x 1 - 76/50 Mk III/V/VI, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Mk II/III, 2 x 1 - 7.6/90

Naval service

During WWII Baire was disarmed and was used as hulk as nasty condition excluded serious repair.