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El Plata class monitor

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Name
  
El Plata class

Preceded by
  
None

Built
  
1874–1876

Operators
  
Argentine Navy

Succeeded by
  
None

El Plata-class monitor

Builders
  
Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, London

The El Plata-class monitors were a pair of monitors built in Britain in the 1870s for the Argentine Navy. They served as coastal defence monitors.

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Description

The El Plata-class monitors were 186 feet (56.7 m) long overall, with a beam of 44 feet (13.4 m) and a draft of 9.5–10.5 feet (2.9–3.2 m). They displaced 1,535–1,677 long tons (1,560–1,704 t), and their crew numbered 120 officers and enlisted men.

The ships had two compound steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft, rated at a total power of 750 indicated horsepower (560 kW). This gave them a maximum speed of 9–9.5 knots (16.7–17.6 km/h; 10.4–10.9 mph). They carried 120 long tons (122 t) of coal which gave them a range of approximately 1,400 nautical miles (2,600 km; 1,600 mi).

Ships in class

  • ARA El Plata
  • ARA Los Andes
  • References

    El Plata-class monitor Wikipedia