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O'HIGGINS

As per Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean...ins_%281897%29 Name: O' Higgins Namesake: Bernardo O'Higgins Builder: Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, United Kingdom Laid down: 4 April 1896 Launched: 17 May 1897 Completed: 2 April 1898 Fate: Discarded 1946 General characteristics Type: Armoured cruiser Displacement: 7,796 long tons (7,921 t) standard[2] 8,500 long tons (8,636 t) full load Length: 412 ft (126 m) Beam: 62 ft 9 in (19.13 m) Draught: 22 ft 9 in (6.93 m) Installed power: 16,250 ihp (12,120 kW) Propulsion: Two vertical triple expansion steam engines 30 Belleville boilers 2 shafts Speed: 21.6 kn (40.0 km/h; 24.9 mph) Range: 4,580 nmi (8,480 km; 5,270 mi)[2] Complement: 500 Armament: 4 ? 8 in (203 mm)/45-calibre guns (4 ? 1) 8 ? 6 in (152 mm)/40-calibre guns 4 ? 4.7 in (120 mm)/45-calibre guns 10 ? 12-pounder guns 10 ? 6-pounder guns 2 ? machine guns 3 ? 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes Armour: Harvey Nickel steel Belt: 7?5 in (178?127 mm) Deck: 3?1.5 in (76?38 mm) slopes 2?1.5 in (51?38 mm) flats Main turrets 7?5 in (178?127 mm) Secondary turrets and casemates 6?5 in (152?127 mm) Conning tower 8 in (203 mm) Operational history While O'Higgins was nearing completion at Elswick in the winter of 1897, tensions were growing between Spain and the United States of America over the ongoing rebellion in Cuba. Rumours circulated that Spain was trying to strengthen its navy in case of war with America by purchasing warships from other countries. The rumoured targets for Spain included the O'Higgins, the newly completed Chilean armoured cruiser Esmeralda and the protected cruiser Ministro Zenteno also nearing completion for Chile at Elswicks. As the outbreak of the Spanish?American War became more likely, the United States also attempted to supplement its fleet by purchasing, amongst other ships, the O'Higgins,[7] but the negotiations did not result in the sale of the Chilean warship, and O'Higgins arrived at Valparaiso on 25 July 1898. The ship hosted a meeting between the President of Chile, Federico Err?zuriz Echaurren and the Argentine President Julio Argentino Roca at Punta Arenas on 15 February 1899, to normalise relations between the two countries. This meeting became known as the "Embrace of the Straits" (El Abrazo del Estrecho). The ship was sent to Panama in 1903 as a result of the confrontation between the United States and Columbia that was ended by the separation of Panama from Colombia. In 1919, O'Higgins was fitted with assigned a floatplane that could be lowered to and from the sea for operations by crane. An aircraft crashed into O'Higgins on 24 August 1920, killing the pilot. The ship was refitted twice, in 1919?1920 and 1928?29. In 1931, O'Higgins was involved in the large scale mutiny that swept the Chilean fleet, being seized by its crew on 1 September 1931. O'Higgins was decommissioned in 1933 and scrapped in 1958. armada.cl

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