El Plata-class monitor
 Watercolor of El Plata | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | El Plata class |
| Builders: | Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, London |
| Operators: |
 Argentine Navy |
| Preceded by: | None |
| Succeeded by: | None |
| Built: | 1874–1876 |
| In service: | 1875–1927 |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Scrapped: | 2 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type: | Monitor |
| Displacement: | 1,535 long tons (1,560 t) |
| Length: | 180 ft (54.9 m) (p/p) |
| Beam: | 44 ft (13.4 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 1 in (2.8 m) |
| Installed power: | 750 ihp (560 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, Compound steam engines |
| Speed: | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Range: | 1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) |
| Complement: | 120 |
| Armament: | 2 × Armstrong 9-inch (229 mm) muzzle-loading rifles 2 × small guns |
| Armor: | Belt: 4.5–6 in (114–152 mm) Deck: 1 in (25 mm) Gun turret: 8–10 in (203–254 mm) |
The El Plata-class monitors were a pair of monitors built in Britain in the 1870s for the Argentine Navy.
Footnotes
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Plata class. |
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
- Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1922. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-907-3.
- "Ironclads Vasco da Gama and Andes". Warship International (Toledo, Ohio: Naval Records Club) X (1): 106–08. 1973.
External links
- "MONITOR A.R.A. "EL PLATA"". Histarmar - Historia y Arqueologia Marítima (in Spanish). FUNDACION HISTARMAR. Retrieved 2014-07-03.
- "MONITOR A.R.A. "LOS ANDES"". Histarmar - Historia y Arqueologia Marítima (in Spanish). FUNDACION HISTARMAR. Retrieved 2014-07-03.