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Cuba 1920s

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Cuba			Cramp, Philadelphia, USA		10.8.1911	1911	stricken 1971

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2055
Displacement full, t
Length, m	79.2
Breadth, m	11.9
Draught, m	4.30
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, Babcock boilers
Power, h. p.	6000
Max speed, kts	18
Fuel, t	coal 250
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 102/50 Bethlehem, 4 x 1 - 57/40 Mk I/II, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Mk I/II, 4 x 1 - 37/40 Mk II/III, 2 x 1 - 7.6/90
Complement	145

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Project history

Officially was classified as cruiser. Cuba was ordered under the 1910 programme, represented the project of Montgomery class cruiser, which has well proved during the Spanish-American war, adapted under Cuban requirements.

Modernizations

mid-1930s: boilers were converted to oil fuel; - 4 x 1 - 47/40, 4 x 1 - 37/40; + 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 3.5.6, 2 x 1 - 76/23 Mk 7.9, 2 x 1 - 57/40 Mk 1.2

1942: + 2 DCT

1960s: + radar (presumably)

Naval service

Since 1961 Cuba was used as accommodation ship, stricken in 1971.