NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Capitán Orella			Laird, Birkenhead, UK		1896	1896	stricken 1924
Capitán Muñoz Gamero			Laird, Birkenhead, UK		1896	1896	stricken 1924
Teniente Serrano			Laird, Birkenhead, UK		1896	1896	stricken 1924
Guardiamarina Riquelme, 1924- Lientur			Laird, Birkenhead, UK		1896	1896	stricken 1930

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	300
Displacement full, t
Length, m	64.9 pp
Breadth, m	6.55
Draught, m	1.79 trials
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	6250
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	coal 90
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 5 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	65

Standard scale images

Project history

Steel-hulled torpedo boat destroyers with a turtleback forecastle and four funnels. Relatives on construction to first British destroyers, these ships were in due time the most perfect in Latin America. On trials the vessels made 30.1-30.42kts on 6313-6398hp.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.