Chilean destroyer Teniente Serrano (1896)

History
Chilea
NameTeniente Serrano
Ordered1895
BuilderLaird Brothers, Birkenhead, England
Cost£55,400
Launched16 May 1896
Commissioned1896
General characteristics
Class and typeCapitán Orella class Torpedo boat destroyer
Displacement311 t
Length64.9 m (212 ft 11 in) (pp)
Beam6.55 m (21 ft 6 in)
Draught1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Propulsion6,250 hp (4,660 kW), VTE, 4 Normand boilers
Speed30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement65
Armament
  • 1 × 1 - 76 mm (3.0 in)/40 Armstrong gun
  • 5 × 1 - 57 mm (2.2 in)/40 Hotchkiss gun
  • 2 × 1 - 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes

Teniente Serrano was a torpedo boat destroyer commissioned by the Chilean Navy in 1896. It was built by Laird Brothers along with three other destroyers: Capitán Orella, Capitán Muñoz Gamero and Guardiamarina Riquelme (later Lientur).

They were steel-hulled torpedo boat destroyers with a turtleback forecastle and four funnels. These ships were, when built, the most advanced ships of their type in Latin America, closely related to contemporary British destroyers. On trials the vessels made 30.1–30.42 knots (55.75–56.34 km/h; 34.64–35.01 mph) on 6,313–6,398 horsepower (4,708–4,771 kW).

Teniente Serrano was launched at Laird's Birkenhead shipyard on 16 May 1896.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Naval & Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 34893. 18 May 1896. p. 13.
  • Lyon, Hugh. "Chile." In Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905, edited by Robert Gardiner, Roger Chesneau, and Eugene Kolesnik, 410–15. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4. OCLC 4775646. Closed access icon