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DEMOCRATA gunboats (1875)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Democrata     Rennie, Govan, UK   1875 1875 TS 1914, stricken 1915
Mexico     Rennie, Govan, UK   1875 1875 stricken 1915


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

445
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

42.7
Breadth, m

7.59
Draught, m

3.40
No of shafts

1
Machinery 
Power, h. p.

600
Max speed, kts

11
Fuel, tcoal
Endurance, nm(kts)

 
Armament

2 x 1 - 163/16 100pdr Armstrong MLR, 2 x 1 - 107/19 Vavasseur 20pdr BLR
Complement

80


Standard scale images


very similar <i>Independencia </i>1914
very similar Independencia 1914


Project history

Iron-hulled, schooner-rigged gunboats with one funnel and three masts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

  By 1890 Mexico was a stationary ship at Mazatlan. Democrata was reclassified as a TS in 1914.