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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Libertador Bolívar (ex-Almirante Simpson)			Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, UK	1895	1896	1896 // 1907	discarded 1932

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	800
Displacement full, t
Length, m	73.2 pp
Breadth, m	8.38
Draught, m	4.27 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	4500
Max speed, kts	21.5
Fuel, t	coal 150
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 25, CT: 51
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/40 Armstrong P, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement

Project history

Largest ship of Ecuadorian Navy, former Chilean Almirante Simpson, bought from Chile in 1907. Already by the purchase moment Libertador Bolívar can make no more than 19kts, and during WWI about 17kts.

Ship protection

There was light 25mm armour protection of side and deck abreast machinery.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.