Almirante Condell in 1903
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Class overview | |
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Name | Almirante Lynch class |
Builders | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead |
Operators | Chilean Navy |
Preceded by | None |
Succeeded by | Almirante Simpson |
Built | 1889–1890 |
In commission | 1891–1919 |
Completed | 2 |
Scrapped | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Torpedo gunboat |
Displacement | 713 t / 750 t |
Length | 70.10 m (230 ft) p/p |
Beam | 8.38 m (27 ft 6 in) |
Draught | 2.53 m (8.3 ft) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 20.65 to 20.3 kn (38.24 to 37.60 km/h; 23.76 to 23.36 mph) |
Complement | 87 |
Armament |
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Armour | Engines - boilers: 25 mm (0.98 in) |
The Almirante Lynch-class was a pair of two torpedo gunboats, Almirante Lynch and Almirante Condell, ordered for the Chilean Navy in the late 1880s.
After the War of the Pacific, the Chilean Navy went through a process of modernization and renewal of the fleet. The government of Chilean President José Manuel Balmaceda (1886–1891) promoted a naval plan for this purpose,[1] aware of the need to have a respectable navy in the face of possible conflicts with Peru or Argentina.[2] By law of 22 August 1887,[2] Balmaceda ordered the construction in France[Note 1] and the England of new vessels to swell the fleet. In England, the two Almirante Lynch-class torpedo gunboats were ordered to be built at the Laird Brothers shipyard.[1] All these naval acquisitions had been made through a special commission headed by Admiral Juan José Latorre.[1]
Ship | Namesake | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Fate |
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Almirante Lynch | Patricio Lynch | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead | 1889 | 1890 | Stricken 1919 |
Almirante Condell | Carlos Condell | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead | 1889 | 1890 | Stricken 1919 |