NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Isla de Luzón			Armstrong, Elswick, UK	2/1886	13.11.1886	9/1887	scuttled 1.5.1898
Isla de Cuba			Armstrong, Elswick, UK	2/1886	11.12.1886	9/1887	scuttled 1.5.1898
Marqués de la Ensenada			Arsenal de la Carraca	24.7.1887	25.2.1890	1.2.1894	discarded 5.1900

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1030
Displacement full, t
Length, m	56.1 pp 60.0 oa
Breadth, m	9.14
Draught, m	3.84 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HTE, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	2627
Max speed, kts	15.9
Fuel, t	coal 160
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 64 - 25, CT: 51
Armament	6 x 1 - 120/35 Hontoria M1883, 4 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss, 3 - 356 TT (1 bow, 2 beam)
Complement	164

Standard scale images

Project history

Steel-hulled, single-funnelled, small protected cruisers

Ship protection

Thin deck protected only machinery.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Isla de Cuba and Isla de Luzón were scuttled 1.5.1898 during the Battle of Manila Bay but raised and repaired by the US Navy under their old names.