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TAMPICO gunboats (1902)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Tampico     Elizabethport, USA   1902 1902 sunk 16.7.1914
Vera Cruz     Elizabethport, USA   1902 1902 stricken 1924


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

980

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

61.0 pp

Breadth, m

10.1

Draught, m

3.35

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, Mosher boilers

Power, h. p.

2400

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, tcoal 170
Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 102/40 Bethlehem, 6 x 1 - 57/40 Driggs-Schroeder, 1 - 356 TT (bow)

Military load200 troops
Complement

98



Standard scale images


<i>Tampico </i>1914
Tampico 1914


Project history

Steel-hulled gunboats with ram bow, two masts, one funnel and raised forecastle and poop. 102mm guns were fore and aft, 2 57mm guns were in casemates abreast the bridge, other four in sponsons amidships.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Tampico was sunk by Mexican cruiser-transport Vincente Guerrero 16.7.1914.