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Name: O'HIGGINS
Type: Armoured Cruiser
Keel: 19/03/1896
Launched: 17/05/1897
Completed: 02/05/1898
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: Elswick
Yard Number: 650
Dimensions: 8476disp, 412.0 x 62.0 x 22.0(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x T4cyl (36, 64 & 62, 62 x 39ins), 16000ihp
Engines by: Humphrys Tennant & Co, Deptford
Propulsion: 2 x Screw, 21.5knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 1 x 8.0ins, 10 x 1 x 6.0ins QF, 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 10 x 1 x 12pdr QF,
10 x 1 x 6pdr QF guns; 3 x 18.0ins torpedoes (1 x stern, 2 x broadside)
History:
02/05/1898 Government of Chile
1958 Broken up
Comments: 1933: Decommissioned


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