Chilean minelayer Colo Colo (1917)

Sister ship Uusimaa
History
Chile
Name: Colo Colo
Namesake: Colo Colo
Builder: Kone ja Silta Oy and Hietalahden Sulkutelakka ja Konepaja Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Laid down: 1916
Launched: 1917
Completed: 1918
Commissioned: 1920
Reinstated: In 1920 by J. Samuel White, Cowes, UK
General characteristics
Class and type: Golub-class guard ship
Displacement: 545 t (full)[1]
Length: 52.6 m (172 ft 7 in)
Beam: 7.47 m (24 ft 6 in)
Draught: 3.35 m (11 ft 0 in) max
Propulsion: 1,400 hp (1,000 kW), VTE, 3 cylindrical boilers
Speed: 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph)
Range: coal 100, 700 sm by 14 kn
Complement: 42
Armament:

The Chilean minelayer Colo Colo was a minelayer purchased from Finland in 1919. The ship entered service with the Chilean Navy in 1920. She remained a part of the Chilean Navy until 1930 when the ship was sold and renamed Toqui. The ship sank in 1944.

Service history

In 1919 the Chilean Government bought 4 incomplete ships captured by Finland on slipways in 1918 after Russia's withdrawal from World War I in 1917. The ships Chibis, Kulik, Strizh and Bekas were in Helsinki under construction for the Russian Empire.

The ships were renamed Colo Colo, Elicura, Leucotón and Orompello, completed and in 1920 passed to England to receive minelaying equipment at the J. Samuel White shipyard. They arrived in Chile on 26 October 1920.

During the Chilean naval mutiny of 1931 Colo Colo (mutineers) chased the submarine Rucumilla (government) and forced it to enter to the Biobio River.

She was sold in 1930 and renamed Toqui. She sank on 25 February 1944 off Huasco.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ All ships data from Navypedia
  2. ↑ Chilean Navy website, Colo Colo
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