VENCEDORA corvette 1861

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VENCEDORA corvette 1861

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:40 pm

Built as a wooden hulled screw corvette by Arsenal de Cartagena for the Spanish Navy.
1861 Launched as the VENCEDORA one of the Narváez class.
Displacement 778 ton, dim. 58 x 9.6 x 4.3m.
Powered by one steam engine, 200 nhp, one screw, speed 8 knots.
Armament: 2 – 200mm and 2 – 160mm guns.
Crew?
1861 Completed.

VENCEDORA was a screw corvette with a wooden hull and propulsion by steam and with an auxiliary rig that served in the Spanish Navy between 1861 and 1888 belonging to the Narváez class.
With a length of 58 m and a displacement of 778 t, its propulsion was a steam engine of 200 nhp that powered a single propeller. It was armed with two 200-mm rotating guns on the sides and two 160-millimeter rotary guns at the bow.
History
1862 The VENCEDORA was sent under the command of Admiral Luis Hernández-Pinzón Álvarez along with the screw frigates TRIUNFO and RESOLUCION and the protected schooner VIRGEN DE COVADONGA as part of an scientific expedition to the Pacific as the flagship of that squadron, sailing from Cádiz on the 10th August 1862 with three zoologists, a geologist, a botanist, an anthropologist, a taxidermist and a photograph on board and via the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Brazil, Rio de la Plata, from where they sailed from the city of Montevideo on 10 January 1863, and via Patagonia, Falkland Islands, passed Cape Horn in February, Chiloé, coasts of Chile and Peru and California, arriving in San Francisco on the 09 of October, sailing again from San Francisco on November 1, bound for Valparaíso, where she arrived on 13 January 1864.
Participated in the bombardment of Valparaiso, which had as intention to destroy the administration centre and the stock exchange, took part in the Battle of Callao, where she faced the defences of the northern area and towed away from the line of fire the damaged VILLA DE MADRID.
At the end the war she was ordered to sail to the Philippines where she intervened in all campaigns against Parang and Jolo between 1871 and 1882.
In 1888 it was disarmed and decommissioned.

Sources: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vencedora_(1861)
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