Chilean cruiser Blanco Encalada (1893)

Protected cruiser Blanco Encalada in 1918
History
Chile
Name: Blanco Encalada
Namesake: Manuel Blanco Encalada
Ordered: 1892
Builder: Armstrong Mitchell and Co. Ltd, Elswick
Launched: 1893
Commissioned: 1895
Decommissioned: 1940
Fate: Sold in 1945
General characteristics
Class & type: Design "Yoshimo" by Philip Watts (naval architect)
Type: Protected cruiser
Displacement: 4,420
Length: 370 feet (110 m)
Beam: 47 feet (14 m)
Draft: 20.5 feet (6.2 m)
Propulsion: 14.500 IHP
Speed: 22.8 kn
Complement: 427 men
Armament:
  • 2 × 1 - 203/40 Armstrong P,
  • 10 × 1 - 152/40 Armstrong W,
  • 12 × 1 - 76/40 Armstrong,
  • 12 × 1 - 37/23 Hotchkiss,
  • 5 - 450 TT (1 bow, 4 beam)[1]

The protected cruiser Blanco Encalada was purchased by the Chilean Government for £333.500 during the Argentine–Chilean naval arms race. She was the second ship named Blanco Encalada. (The previous ship was the armored frigate Blanco Encalada sunk in the 1891 Chilean Civil War.)

In December 1906 she was involved in the repression of the workers movement in the Saltpeter mines, railroads and harbour in Antofagasta.[2]

On 17 December 1907 she brought troops from Arica 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. These troops committed the Santa María School massacre.[3]:340

See also

References

  1. ↑ Navypedia.org, Blanco Encalada, retrieved on 6 January 2013
  2. ↑ Luis Vitale, Intervenciones militares y poder fáctico en la política chilena, de 1830 al 2.000, Santiago, 2000
  3. ↑ Carlos López Urrutia (1969). Historia de la Marina de Chile. Andres Bello. GGKEY:9XDHU6QU6DA. Retrieved 9 January 2013.


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