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QUIROS gunboats

No Name Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
PG40 Quiros (ex-Quiros) Hong Kong & Whampoa, UK 9/1895 6/1896 1897 // 3/1900 sunk as target 10/10/1923
PG42 Villalobos (ex-Villalobos) Hong Kong & Whampoa, UK 6/1894 24/1/1895 7/1896 // 3/1900 stricken 10/1928

 

Displacement normal, t

350 - 370

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

44.2

Breadth, m

6.93

Draught, m

2.36

No of shafts

1

Machinery

VTE, 2 single-ended Scotch boilers

Power, h. p.

450

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal
Endurance, nm (kts)  

Armament

PG40: 2 x 1 - 57/(30 - 50) Mk 1 - 10, 2 x 1 - 47/(40 - 50) Mk 1 - 11

PG42: 2 x 1 - 57/(30 - 50) Mk 1 - 10, 2 x 1 - 47/(40 - 50) Mk 1 - 11, 2 x 1 - 37/(20 - 50) Mk 1 - 13

Complement

44 - 57

   

Ship project history: Ex-Spanish gunboats captured in Manila Bay in 1898 at the end of Spanish-American war.

Modernizations: 1910, Quiros: unarmed

1918, Villalobos: - 2 x 1 - 57/(30-50); + 2 x 1 - 47/(40-50) Mk 1-11

Naval service: No significant events.

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