Chilean destroyer Almirante Condell

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CNS Condell
Career (Chile) CN Ensign
Class and type: Almirante Lynch class destroyer
Name: CNS Almirante Condell
Ordered: 1911
Builder: J. Samuel White, UK
Laid down: 1912
Launched: 28 September 1912
Commissioned: January 1914
Decommissioned: 19 December 1945
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,430 tons standard
1,850 tons full load
Length: 101 m
Beam: 9.9 m
Draught: 3.35 m
Propulsion: six Foster-White Mixed fired boilers
three shaft Parsons direct turbines
30,000 hp
Speed: 31 knots (57 km/h)
Range: 4,205 nmi at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement: 160
Armament: 6 - 4 in guns
4 - Machine guns
6 - 21 inch torpedo tubes

The Almirante Condell was a destroyer which served with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II. She was the second ship in the Chilean Navy to bear this name.

The Chilean Navy ordered six ships from J. Samuel White in 1911. These destroyers were larger and more powerful that contemporary British destroyers. The Condell was built by the United Kingdom as part of a six ship Almirante Lynch class of destroyers, of which only two ships were delivered before the outbreak of war and served in the Chilean Navy until 1945.

She was named after Admiral Carlos Condell, Chilean sailor, hero of the War of the Pacific.

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