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Name: GENERAL BAQUEDANO
Type: Corvette & Sail Training Ship
Keel: 10/05/1897
Launched: 05/07/1898
Completed: 22/08/1899
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: Elswick
Yard Number: 675
Dimensions: 2330disp, 240.0 x 45.75 x 18.0(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (30, 50 & 81.5 x 48ins) 1500ihp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots; also rigged as a Barque
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 2 x 1 x 12pdr QF, 2 x 1 x 6pdr QF guns; 1 x 18.0ins torpedo
History:
22/08/1899 Government of Chile
1955 Stricken
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