ARA HUASCAR IN DOCK 24

ARA HUASCAR A CHILEAN IRONCLAD 1866

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS BULKHEAD WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS ( VENTS UPGRADED )

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Name: Huáscar
Ordered: 4 August 1864
Builder: Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, England
Launched: 6 October 1865
Commissioned: 8 November 1866
Captured: Captured by Chile at the Battle of Angamos, 8 October 1879

Chile

Acquired: 8 October 1879
Decommissioned: 1897
Reinstated: 1934
Status: Museum ship
General characteristics
Type: Ironclad turret ship
Displacement: 1,870 long tons (1,900 t)
Length: 66.9 m (219 ft)
Beam: 10.9 m (35.8 ft)
Draught: 5.7 m (18.7 ft)

Installed power:

1,650 ihp (1,230 kW)
4 × boilers

Propulsion: 1 × screw; 1 × Horizontal-return connecting rod-steam engine
Sail plan: Brig-rigged
Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 170
Armament:

2 × 10" (254 mm), 300 lb (136 kg) Armstrong guns in a single Coles turret
2 × 4.7" (120 mm), 40 lb (18 kg) Armstrong guns
1 × 12 lb (5 kg) cannon
1 × .44 cal Gatling gun
Armoured ram bow

Armour:

Belt: 2.5–4.5 in (64–114 mm)
Gun turrets: 5.5–7.5 in (140–191 mm)
Conning tower: 3 in (76 mm)
Deck: 2 in (51 mm)

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