Built as a cruiser under yard No 302 by Stettiner Vulkan Shipyard Co. Stettin for the Uruguayan Navy.
Launched as the URUGUAY.
Displacement 1,202 tons, dim. 84.6 x 9.4 x 3.4m. (draught).
Two triple expansion steam engines, 5.700 hp., twin shafts, speed 23 knots.
Bunker capacity 210 tons of coal.
Nominal radius 3,000 miles by a speed of 12 knots.
Armament: in 1914: 2 – 4.7 inch (Skoda), 4 – 12pdrs., 6 – 1pdr. (Vickers), 2 – 18 inch torpedo tubes.
Crew 120.
1910 completed.
In 1919 brought she back the body of the Mexican diplomat and poet Amado Nervo from Uruguay to Mexico.
Was present during the final phase of the Battle of the River Plate and the scuttling of the german armoured cruiser ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE in December 1939.
Was mostly used as a training ship for naval academy upperclassmen.
Decommissioned in 1932.
Broken up in 1962.
Uruguay 1991 1570 p sg 2047, scott 1406c
Source; Jane’s 1914. Watercraft Philately Vol. 39 page 19. Navicula.