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CUBA gunboat (1911)


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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, t2055
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

79.2

Breadth, m11.9
Draught, m

4.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery2 VTE, Babcock boilers
Power, h. p.6000
Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, tcoal 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

Complement145


Standard scale images


<i>Cuba </i>1960
Cuba 1960
<i>Cuba </i>1943
Cuba 1943


Graphics


<i>Cuba </i>1952
Cuba 1952
<i>Cuba </i>1920s
Cuba 1920s


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.