For other ships with the same name, see Chilean ship Blanco Encalada.
Protected cruiser Blanco Encalada in 1918
History
Chile
Name
Blanco Encalada
Namesake
Manuel Blanco Encalada
Ordered
1892
Builder
Armstrong Mitchell and Co. Ltd, Elswick
Launched
1893
Commissioned
1895
Decommissioned
1940
Fate
Sold in 1945
General characteristics
Class and type
Design "Yoshino" by Philip Watts (naval architect)
Type
Protected cruiser
Displacement
4,420
Length
370 feet (110 m)
Beam
47 feet (14 m)
Draft
20.5 feet (6.2 m)
Propulsion
14.500 IHP
Speed
22.8 kn
Complement
427 men
Armament
2 × 1 - 203/40 Armstrong P
10 × 1 - 152/40 Armstrong W
12 × 1 - 76/40 Armstrong
12 × 1 - 37/23 Hotchkiss,
5 - 450 TT (1 bow, 4 beam)
The protected cruiser Blanco Encalada was purchased by the Chilean Government for £333,500 during the Argentine–Chilean naval arms race. She was the second ship named Blanco Encalada. (The previous ship was the armored frigate Blanco Encalada sunk in the 1891 Chilean Civil War).
In December 1906 she was involved in the repression of the workers movement in the Saltpeter mines, railroads and harbour in Antofagasta.[1]
On 17 December 1907 she brought troops from Arica to Iquique to repress thousands of miners from different nitrate mines in Chile's north to appeal for government intervention to improve their living and working conditions. These troops committed the Santa María School massacre.[2]: 340
^Luis Vitale, Intervenciones militares y poder fáctico en la política chilena, de 1830 al 2.000, Santiago, 2000
^Carlos López Urrutia (1969). Historia de la Marina de Chile. Andres Bello. GGKEY:9XDHU6QU6DA. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
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