Chilean destroyer Teniente Serrano (1896)

Teniente Serrano was a torpedo boat destroyer commissioned by the Chilean Navy in 1896. It was built by Laird Brothers along with three other destroyers: Capitán Orella, Capitán Muñoz Gamero and Guardiamarina Riquelme (later Lientur).

Chilean destroyer Teniente Serrano in a postcard of the shipyard
History
Chilea
NameTeniente Serrano
Ordered1895
BuilderLaird Brothers, Birkenhead, England
Cost£55,400
Launched1896
Commissioned1896
General characteristics
Class and type Capitán Orella class Torpedo boat destroyer
Displacement311 t
Length64.9 m (212 ft 11 in) (pp)
Beam6.55 m (21 ft 6 in)
Draught1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Propulsion6,250 hp (4,660 kW), VTE, 4 Normand boilers
Speed30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement65
Armament
  • 1 × 1 - 76 mm (3.0 in)/40 Armstrong gun
  • 5 × 1 - 57 mm (2.2 in)/40 Hotchkiss gun
  • 2 × 1 - 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes

They were steel-hulled torpedo boat destroyers with a turtleback forecastle and four funnels. These ships were, when built, the most advanced ships of their type in Latin America, closely related to contemporary British destroyers. On trials the vessels made 30.1–30.42 knots (55.75–56.34 km/h; 34.64–35.01 mph) on 6,313–6,398 horsepower (4,708–4,771 kW).

See also

References
  • Lyon, Hugh. "Chile." In Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1860–1905, edited by Robert Gardiner, Roger Chesneau, and Eugene Kolesnik, 410–15. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4. OCLC 4775646.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.