Chilean cruiser Ministro Zenteno (1896)
History | |
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Chile | |
Name | Ministro Zenteno |
Namesake | José Ignacio Zenteno |
Ordered | Brazil |
Builder | Armstrong, Mitchell and Company |
Cost | £265,000 |
Laid down | 1895 |
Launched | 1 January 1896 |
Decommissioned | 1930 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Protected cruiser |
Displacement | 3,437 tons |
Length | 100.6 m (330 ft 1 in) pp |
Beam | 13.3 m (43 ft 8 in) |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
Installed power | 7,500 |
Propulsion | VTE, 8 cylindrical boilers |
Speed | 20.2 knots (37.4 km/h; 23.2 mph) |
Range | 850 t |
Armament |
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Armor | Deck: 32 mm (1.3 in) with 89 mm (3.5 in) slopes, CT: 102 |
Ministro Zenteno was a protected cruiser of the Chilean Navy.
Construction and design
In November 1894, the Brazilian government placed an order for three protected cruisers with the British shipyard
Ministro Zenteno was 108.00 metres (354 ft 4 in)
As a protected cruiser, the ship's vitals were protected by a full-length arched deck of steel armour, 3+1⁄2 inches (89 mm) thick on the slopes and 1+1⁄4 inches (32 mm) on the horizontal part of the deck. The ship's conning tower was protected by 4 inches (100 mm) of armour.[4][1] The ship's main gun armament consisted of eight 6-in (152 mm) 45-calibre quick-firing guns, with two fore-and-aft on the ship's centreline, and three on each beam. The secondary armament was ten 6-pounder (57mm) guns and four 3-pounder (47mm) guns. The ship was fitted with three 18-inch (450mm) torpedo tubes, one fixed in the bow and the other two on swivelling mounts on the ship's broadside.[1]
Service
Ministro Zenteno attended the Pan-American Conference in Mexico in 1901.
In 1907 she sailed off Valparaíso for a training cruise bound for Punta Arenas, Bahía, La Guaira, Bermudas, Hampton Roads, Annapolis, Newport, Plymouth, Brest, El Ferrol, Lisboa, Argel, Malta, Spezia, Genova, Barcelona, Cartagena, Gibraltar, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Río de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Puerto Madryn, Punta Arenas, Puerto Montt, Talcahuano, and back to Valparaíso on 8 December 1907.
See also
Endnotes
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.
- Scheina, Robert L. Latin America: A Naval History, 1810–1987. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1987. OCLC 15696006.
- Sieche, Erwin F. (1990). "Austria-Hungary's Last Visit to the USA". Warship International. XXVII (2): 142–164. ISSN 0043-0374.
External links
- Media related to Category:Chilean cruiser Ministro Zenteno (1896) at Wikimedia Commons
- Chilean Navy website Crucero Ministro Zenteno
- Spanish newspaper Blanco y Negro on 14 September 1907 about the visit of the Ministro Zenteno in Barcelonaon 5 February 1907