Chilean cruiser Chacabuco

Chilean cruiser Chacabuco
Career (Chile)
Name: Chacabuco
Builder: Armstrong Whitworth
Launched: 4 July 1898
Acquired: 1902
Struck: 1952
General characteristics
Class and type: protected cruiser
Displacement: 4,160 long tons (4,230 t)
Length: 360 ft (109.7 m)
Beam: 46 ft 6 in (14.2 m)
Draught: 17 ft (5.2 m)
Installed power: 15,700 ihp (11,700 kW)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, vertical triple-expansion steam engines
cylindrical boilers
Speed: 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Complement: 400
Armament:

2 × 1 - Armstrong 8-inch (203 mm) guns
10 × 1 - 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns
12 × 1 - 3-inch (76 mm) guns
6 × 1 - 3-pounder guns

3 × 1 - 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour: Deck: 1.75–4.5 in (44–114 mm)
Main gun shields: 4.5 in (114 mm)
Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm)

The Chilean cruiser Chacabuco was a cruiser in service with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II.

The Chacabuco was a Chilean cruiser built by Amstrong Shipyard entered service in 1902, modernized in 1941 and scraped 1947.[1]

References

  1. ^ Carlos Lopez Urrutia, "Historia de la Marina de Chile", Editorial Andres Bello, 1969, view, page 414.

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