Chilean ironclad Blanco Encalada

For other ships of the same name, see Chilean ship Blanco Encalada.

Blanco Encalada
Career
Name:	Blanco Encalada
Namesake:	Manuel Blanco Encalada
Builder:	Earle's Shipbuilding Co., Hull
Laid down:	1873
Launched:	8 May 1875
Completed:	1875
Fate:	Sunk by torpedo, 23 April 1891
General characteristics
Class and type:	ironclad
Type:	Armoured frigate
Displacement:	3,480 long tons (3,540 t)
Length:	210 ft (64.0 m)
Beam:	46 ft 9 in (14.2 m)
Draught:	19 ft 8 in (6.0 m)
Installed power:	3,000 ihp (2,200 kW)
Propulsion:	2 shafts, 2 Trunk steam engines 6 cylindrical boilers
Sail plan:	Barque rig
Speed:	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range:	1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	300
Armament:	6 × 9 in (229 mm) muzzle-loading rifles 1 × 20-pounder gun 1 × 9-pounder gun 1 × 7-pounder gun
Armour:	Belt: 4.5–9 in (114–229 mm) Battery: 6–8 in (152–203 mm) Deck: 2–3 in (51–76 mm) Conning tower: 4.5 in (114 mm) Bulkheads: 6 in (152 mm)

Blanco Encalada was an armored frigate built by Earle's Shipbuilding Co. in England for the Chilean Navy in 1875. She was nicknamed El Blanco. She participated actively in the War of the Pacific, her most important action being the capture of the Peruvian monitor Huáscar during the battle of Angamos.

Blanco formed part of the congressional forces that brought down President José Manuel Balmaceda in the Chilean Civil War of 1891. She was sunk during that conflict on 23 April 1891, becoming the first warship to be sunk by a self-propelled torpedo.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ "Blanco Encalada, fragata blindada (1º).". Armada de Chile. http://www.armada.cl/prontus_armada/site/artic/20090716/pags/20090716194359.html. Retrieved 2009-10-27.  (Spanish)

References

Much of this article was translated from Blanco Encalada (fragata blindada).

• Gardiner, Robert, ed (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4. 
• Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0. 
• "Some South American Ironclads". Warship International (Toledo, OH: Naval Records Club) VIII (2): 203–204. 1971.