Chilean cruiser Esmeralda (1896)
Esmeralda was developed as a custom design by naval architect Philip Watts for the Chilean Navyduring the Argentine–Chilean naval arms race.
Cruiser Esmeralda | |
History | |
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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 |
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Type: | Armoured cruiser |
Displacement: | 7,032 long tons (7,145 t) |
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Beam: | 52 ft 5 in (15.98 m) |
Draft: | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
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Complement: | 513 |
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On 18 December 1907, the ship brought troops from Valparaíso to Iquique to repress thousands of miners from different nitrate mines in Chile's north who were appealing for government intervention to improve their living and working conditions. This later developed into the Santa María School massacre.[2]:340
Esmeralda served in the Chilean Navy for approximately thirty years, until 1930.
- 1/48th scale model of Esmeralda, on display at the Swiss Museum of Transport.
Notes
- Brooke 1999, p. 101.
- Carlos López Urrutia (1969). Historia de la Marina de Chile. Andres Bello. GGKEY:9XDHU6QU6DA. 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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