Name Blanco Encalada Ordered 1892 Decommissioned 1940 Length 113 m Draft 6.25 m | Namesake Manuel Blanco Encalada Commissioned 1895 Launched 1893 Weight 2.005 tons Beam 14 m | |
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Builder Armstrong Mitchell and Co. Ltd, Elswick | ||
The protected cruiser Blanco Encalada was purchased by the Chilean Government for £333.500 during the Argentine–Chilean naval arms race. She was the second ship named Blanco Encalada. (The previous ship was the armored frigate Blanco Encalada sunk in the 1891 Chilean Civil War.)
In December 1906 she was involved in the repression of the workers movement in the Saltpeter mines, railroads and harbour in Antofagasta.
On 17 December 1907 she brought troops from Arica to Iquique to repress thousands of miners from different nitrate mines in Chile's north to appeal for government intervention to improve their living and working conditions. These troops committed the Santa María School massacre.
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