Isla de Cuba 1887

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Name:	ISLA DE CUBA
Type:	Cruiser - 2nd Class
Keel:	25/02/1886
Launched:	11/12/1886
Completed:	22/09/1887
Builder:	Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard:	Elswick
Yard Number:	498
Dimensions:	1030disp, 185.0 x 30.0 x 11.6(draft)ft
Engines:	2 x T3cyl (18.5, 29 & 43 x 24ins), 1600ihp
Engines by:	R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion:	2 x Screws, 14.2knots
Construction:	Steel
Armament:	6 x 1 x 4.7ins, 8 x 1 x 6pdr QF guns; 3 x 14.0ins torpedoes

History:
22/09/1887	Spanish Navy
11/04/1900	USA Navy
02/04/1912	Republic of Venezuela; renamed MARISCAL SUCRE
1940	Scrapped

Comments:	1898: Fought at the Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War
	Having sustained light damage in the battle she was scuttled by the Spanish crew
	She settled in shallow water and her uperworks were set on fire by a US Navy crew
	01/05/1898: Refloated by the US Navy and repaired at Singapore
	The 4.7ins guns were replaced by 4.0ins guns
	11/04/1900: Commissioned as a US Navy gunboat
	04/03/1904: Decommissioned
	21/03/1907: Loaned to the Naval Militia of Maryland for use as a school ship
	1908 to 1911: Re-boilered and given 2 funnels

Above: Alongside her sister at Elswick. Photo copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums