GUANAJUATO gunboats

Guanajuato 1954

Name	No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Guanajuato	C07	SECN, El Ferrol, Spain		28/5/1934	5/1936	preserved 2001
Querétaro	H09	SECN, El Ferrol, Spain		28/7/1934	4/1936	stricken 1975
Potosi		SECN, Cadiz, Spain		24/8/1934	4/1936	stricken 1975

Displacement standard, t	1300
Displacement full, t	1950
Length, m	79.2 pp 80.4 oa
Breadth, m	11.5
Draught, m	3.05
No of shafts	2
Machinery	Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	5000
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	oil 140
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(14)
Armament	3 x 1 - 102/45 Vickers Mk LA, 2 x 2 - 25/60 Hotchkiss, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76
Military load	230 troops, 40 horses
Complement	140

Ship project history: Original ships combining functions of gunboat and military transport. Project was developed on the basis of Spanish Canovas del Castillo gunboat. At expense of hull increasing and some decreasing of armament Mexican ships were available to take aboard up to 230 infantrymen and 40 horses for whom there was special accommodation in an aft superstructure.
After introduction of Mexico into the war, all three gunboats passed repair and modernizations on US shipyards in California.

Modernizations: 1942, all: - 2 x 2 - 25/60; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 DCT

late 1960s, Guanajuato: geared turbines were replaced by diesels (5000hp, 14kts only); - 2 x 1 - 102/45

Naval service: Guanajuato after discarding was preserved as memorial in Veracruz.

Guanajuato 1936

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