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| History | |
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| Name | ARA El Plata |
| Builder | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead |
| Launched | 29 August 1874 |
| Stricken | 16 November 1927 |
| Fate | Sold, 1927 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type | El Plata-class monitor |
| Displacement | 1,535–1,677 long tons (1,560–1,704 t) |
| Length | 180 ft (54.9 m) (p/p) |
| Beam | 44 ft (13.4 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 1 in (2.8 m) |
| Installed power | 750 ihp (560 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 compound steam engines |
| Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Range | 1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) |
| Complement | 120 |
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ARA El Plata was the first of two El Plata-class monitors built in Britain in the 1870s for the Argentine Navy.