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 Blanco Encalada
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| History | |
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 Chile | |
| Name | Valparaíso |
| Namesake | Manuel Blanco Encalada |
| Builder | Earle's Shipbuilding Co., Hull |
| Laid down | 1873 |
| Launched | 8 May 1875 |
| Completed | 1875 |
| Renamed | Blanco Encalada (1876) |
| Fate | Sunk by torpedo, 23 April 1891 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Almirante Cochrane-class 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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Blanco Encalada was a central battery ship built by Earle's Shipbuilding Co. in England for the Chilean Navy in 1875. She was nicknamed El Blanco. She participated actively in the War of the Pacific, her most important action being the capture of the Peruvian monitor Huáscar during the Battle of Angamos.
Blanco Encalada formed part of the congressional forces that brought down President José Manuel Balmaceda in the Chilean Civil War of 1891. She was sunk during that conflict on 23 April 1891, becoming the first ironclad warship to be sunk by a self-propelled torpedo.[1][2]
- ^ "Blanco Encalada, fragata blindada (1º)" (in Spanish). Armada de Chile. Archived from the original on 3 December 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
- ^ Stem, Robert. Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close Combat, p. 22. Seaforth Publishing, 2008. ISBN 1473813565. (online)