| 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) |
| Armor: |
Harvey steel |
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.
See also[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Brooke 1999, p. 101.
- ↑ Carlos López Urrutia (1969). Historia de la Marina de Chile. Andres Bello. GGKEY:9XDHU6QU6DA. http://books.google.com/books?id=IyV_C94lNRoC. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
References[]
- Brooke, Peter. Warships for Export: Armstrong Warships 1867–1927. Gravesend, UK: World Ship Society, 1999. ISBN 0-905617-89-4.
- Chesneau, Roger and Eugene M. Kolesnik. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway's Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
External links[]
- Chilean Navy site Esmeralda (1895), retrieved on 17 December 2012
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