Chilean cruiser Ministro Zenteno (1896)

History
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
General characteristics
Class and type: Protected cruiser [1]
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:
  • 8 × 1 - 152/40 Armstrong W,
  • 10 × 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss,
  • 4 × 1 - 37/23 Hotchkiss,
  • 3 - 450 Torpedo Tubes (1 bow, 2 beam)
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.

Service history

Ministro Zenteno was laid down in 1895 for the Brazilian Navy, but was sold in August 1895 to the Chilean government.[2] The ship was launched in 1896. Ministro Zenteno was one of four protected cruisers ordered by Brazil, but they eventually acquired only Almirante Barroso due to financial difficulties. The sister ships Amazonas (later USS New Orleans) and Almirante Abreu (later USS Albany) were purchased by the United States Navy.

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

  1. ↑ All ship data from Navypedia
  2. ↑ Scheina, Naval History, 298.

References

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