NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Hernan Cortés			Clydebank, Govan, UK		24.8.1895	1895	discarded 5.1925
Vasco Núñez de Balboa			Clydebank, Govan, UK		12.9.1895	1895	discarded 11.1926
Pizarro			Clydebank, Govan, UK		5.9.1895	1895	scuttled 8.1898

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	295
Displacement full, t
Length, m	47.4
Breadth, m	6.60
Draught, m	1.93
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler
Power, h. p.	352
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	coal 67
Endurance, nm(kts)	2900(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/42 Nordenfelt, 2 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim-Nordenfelt
Complement	53

Project history

Small colonial gunboats.

Modernizations

1890s, all: - 2 x 1 - 37/27; + 2 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt.

Naval service

Pizarro was blown up and scuttled by own crew to avoid capture in early August, 1898 off Nuevitas (Cuba).