Chilean cruiser Chacabuco (1898)

For other uses, see Chacabuco (disambiguation).

300px Chilean cruiser Chacabuco, 1898
History
Chile
Name:	Chacabuco
Namesake:	Battle of Chacabuco
Builder:	Armstrong Whitworth
Launched:	4 July 1898
Acquired:	1902
Struck:	1952
General characteristics
Class & 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 protected cruiser in service with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II and scrapped 1947.

She was involved in the Santa María School massacre.

See also

• List of decommissioned ships of the Chilean Navy
• South American dreadnought race