Chilean cruiser Esmeralda (1895)

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Cruiser Esmeralda
History
Chile
Name: Esmeralda
Namesake: Esmeralda (1791)
Ordered: 15 May 1895
Builder: Armstrong Mitchell and Co. Ltd, Elswick
Laid down: 4 July 1895[1]
Launched: 14 April 1896[1]
Commissioned: 4 September 1896[1]
Decommissioned: 1930
Fate: Scrapped 1930
General characteristics [1]
Type: Armoured cruiser
Displacement: 7,032 long tons (7,145 t)
Length:
  • 436 ft (132.89 m) pp
  • 468 ft 3 in (142.72 m) oa
Beam: 52 ft 5 in (15.98 m)
Draft: 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
Installed power:
  • 16,000 ihp (12,000 kW) (natural draft)
  • 18,000 ihp (13,000 kW) (forced draft)
Propulsion:
  • Two vertical triple expansion steam engines
  • 6 cylindrical boilers
  • 2 shafts
Speed:
  • 22.25 kn (25.60 mph; 41.21 km/h) (natural draft)
  • 23 kn (26 mph; 43 km/h)
Complement: 513
Armament:
  • 2 × 8 in (203 mm)/40-calibre guns (2×1)
  • 16 × 6 in (152 mm)/40-calibre guns
  • 8 × 12-pounder guns
  • 10 × 6-pounder guns
  • 4 × machine-guns
  • 3 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor:
  • Harvey steel
  • Belt: 6 in (152 mm)
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  • Bulkheads: 6 in (152 mm)
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  • Conning tower: 8 in (203 mm)

Esmeralda was developed as a custom design by naval architect Philip Watts for the Chilean Navy.

On 18 December 1907, the ship brought troops from Valparaíso to Iquique to repress thousands of miners from different nitrate mines in Chile's north who were appealing for government intervention to improve their living and working conditions. This later developed into the Santa María School massacre.[2]:340

Esmeralda served in the Chilean Navy for approximately thirty years, until 1930.

1/48th scale model of Esmeralda, on display at the Swiss Museum of Transport.
1/48th scale model of Esmeralda, on display at the Swiss Museum of Transport. 

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Brooke 1999, p. 101.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

References

  • Brooke, Peter. Warships for Export: Armstrong Warships 1867–1927. Gravesend, UK: World Ship Society, 1999. ISBN 0-905617-89-4.
  • Chesneau, Roger and Eugene M. Kolesnik. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway's Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.

External links

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