Chilean cruiser Esmeralda (1895)

Cruiser Esmeralda
Career (Chile)
Name: Esmeralda
Namesake: Esmeralda (1791)
Ordered: 15 May 1895
Builder: Armstrong Mitchell and Co. Ltd, Elswick
Laid down: 4 July 1895[1]
Launched: 14 April 1896[1]
Commissioned: 4 September 1896[1]
Decommissioned: 1930
Fate: Scrapped 1930
General characteristics [1]
Type:Armoured cruiser
Displacement:7,032 long tons (7,145 t)
Length:436 ft (132.89 m) pp
468 ft 3 in (142.72 m) oa
Beam:52 ft 5 in (15.98 m)
Draft:20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
Installed power:16,000 ihp (12,000 kW) (natural draft)
18,000 ihp (13,000 kW) (forced draft)
Propulsion:Two vertical triple expansion steam engines
6 cylindrical boilers
2 shafts
Speed:22.25 kn (25.60 mph; 41.21 km/h) (natural draft)
23 kn (26 mph; 43 km/h)
Complement:513
Armament:2 × 8 in (203 mm)/40-calibre guns (2×1)

16 × 6 in (152 mm)/40-calibre guns
8 × 12-pounder guns
10 × 6-pounder guns
4 × machine-guns

3 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor:Harvey steel

Belt: 6 in (152 mm)
Deck:1 1⁄2–2 in (38–51 mm)
Bulkheads: 6 in (152 mm)
Gunshields:4 1⁄2 in (110 mm)

Conning tower: 8 in (203 mm)

The Esmeralda was developed as a custom-design by naval architect Philip Watts for the Chilean Navy.

On 18 December 1907 she brought troops from Valparaíso to Iquique to repress thousands of miners from different nitrate mines in Chile's north to appeal for government intervention to improve their living and working conditions. It became the Santa María School massacre.[2]:340

Esmeralda served in the Chilean Navy for approximately thirty years, until 1930.

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Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Brooke 1999, p. 101.
  2. ↑ Carlos López Urrutia (1969). Historia de la Marina de Chile. Andres Bello. GGKEY:9XDHU6QU6DA. Retrieved 9 January 2013.

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