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 |
Comments: |
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Above photo courtesy of Photoship