 Chilean battery Cochrane
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| History | |
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| Name | Almirante Cochrane |
| Builder | Earle's Shipbuilding Co., Hull |
| Cost | 2,000,000 pesos |
| Laid down | 1873 |
| Launched | 23 January 1874 |
| Completed | December 1874 |
| Decommissioned | 1933 |
| Out of service | 1908 |
| Reclassified | as training ship, 1898 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1934 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Almirante Cochrane-class ironclad |
| Type | Central battery ship |
| Displacement | 3,480 long tons (3,540 t) |
| Length | 210 ft (64.0 m) |
| Beam | 46 ft 9 in (14.2 m) |
| Draught | 19 ft 8 in (6.0 m) |
| Installed power | 3,000 ihp (2,200 kW) |
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| Sail plan | Barque rig |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range | 1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 300 |
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Almirante Cochrane was a central battery ship of the Chilean Navy in the late nineteenth century. She was built, like her twin, Blanco Encalada, in the UK in 1875. She participated in the War of the Pacific, with her most prominent action being her victory over the Peruvian turret ram Huáscar in the Angamos naval battle. Almirante Cochrane was part of the forces that defeated President José Manuel Balmaceda in the Chilean Civil War of 1891.
The ship was named after Thomas Cochrane, a British naval officer who served as the first Vice Admiral of Chile, leading the Chilean Navy during the War of Independence.