Spanish gunboat General Concha
General Concha gunboat
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| Name: | Cañonero General Concha (Crucero no protegido de Tercera Clase) |
| Namesake: | General Concha |
| Builder: | Naval shipyard Esteiro at Ferrol, Spain |
| Way number: | Shipyard order Nr. 169 |
| Laid down: | 1 May 1882 |
| Launched: | 28 November 1883 |
| Fate: | Wrecked 11 June 1913 |
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| Class and type: | General Concha-class |
| Type: | Gunboat – 3rd Class Non-Armored Cruiser |
| Displacement: | 524 tons |
| Length: | 48.76 m (160.0 ft) |
| Beam: | 7.8 m (25.6 ft) |
| Draft: | 2.62 m (8 ft 7.1 in) |
| Installed power: | 600 hp |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft, compound reciprocating, 2 boilers |
| Sail plan: | light schooner rig |
| Speed: | 11 knots |
| Complement: | 98 officers and enlisted |
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| Armor: | None |
| Notes: | 80 tons of coal (normal) |
General Concha was a General Concha-class Cañonero (gunboat) or more technically "Third Class non-armored Cruiser" of the Spanish Navy which fought at San Juan, Puerto Rico, during the Spanish–American War.
General Concha was built at the naval shipyard Esteiro at Ferrol in Spain, working order #169. She had an iron hull with bow ram, a single funnel, and a light schooner rig. She was the first ship of a class of four gunboats ordered by Admiral Francisco de Paula Pavía y Pavía during his third term as Ministro de Marina (Minister of the Navy). The design was made in Spain. The keel was laid down on 1 May 1882 and the ship was launched on 28 November 1883. The 600 hp engine with two boilers was constructed by La Maquinista Terrestre y Maritima SA in Barcelona at a final cost of 312,000 pesetas and was constructed directly aboard the ship, after being towed from Ferrol to Barcelona by merchant vessel José Pérez. Bunker coal stock capacity was 70–80 tons having an average consumption of 10 tons per day.
Initially, weaponry was led by three main 120 mm. "González Hontoria" guns (a heavy armament for a gunboat, which made her being technically categorised as "Cruiser, Third Class" in spite of being a standard gunboat in all other aspects) and three Nordenfelt-type machine guns, 2 x 25 mm. and 1 x 11 mm., but sometime after late 1899 the ordnance was changed to a lighter four rapid-fire 42 mm. Nordenfelt guns and two 25 mm. Maxim machine guns.
She was named after Spanish Navy Brigadier Don Juan Gutiérrez de la Concha, governor of the intendency of Salta del Tucumán, then part of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata, and explorer of the Patagonia in a 1779 expedition. He was executed by the first independent Argentine government in August 1810, near the city of Cruz Alta, Córdoba, along with Santiago de Liniers and other counter-revolutionaries.
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