The torpedogunboatAlmiranteLynch and her sister ship Almirante Condell, were purchased in England and launched in 1890. The vessels had a high forecastle...
self-propelled torpedoes. In 1896, the Chilean Navy acquired a third ship of this type from the same shipyard, the Almirante Simpson torpedogunboat. Between...
Chilean Navy have been named AlmiranteLynch after Patricio Lynch (1824–1886), a Chilean hero during the War of the Pacific Chileantorpedogunboat Almirante...
Almirante Simpson was a unique design of torpedogunboat, built by the British shipyard Laird Brothers. Acquired by the Chilean Navy in 1895, during construction...
world navies' perception of the torpedo: During the 1891 Chilean Civil War, the Chilean vessel AlmiranteLynch, torpedoed and sank in port the rebel frigate...
the 1890s. In 1891, a ChileanAlmiranteLynch class torpedogunboat managed to sink the ironclad Blanco Encalada with a torpedo at the battle of Caldera...
the Chilean navy adhered to the cause of Balmaceda. But amongst these were two new and fast torpedogunboats, Almirante Condell and AlmiranteLynch, and...
1887. ChileantorpedogunboatAlmirante Simpson, launched in 1896 and transferred to Ecuador in 1907. Chilean destroyer Almirante Simpson, a Almirante Lynch-class...
and the 1890s. In the 1880s, the Chilean Navy ordered the construction of two AlmiranteLynch class torpedogunboats from the British shipyard Laird Brothers...
Laird Brothers shipyard, two AlmiranteLynch-class torpedogunboats, AlmiranteLynch and Almirante Condell, considered torpedo cruisers by some sources....
1891 Chilean Civil War between Balmacedist and Congressional naval forces on 23 April 1891. It involved two Balmacedist torpedo boats of the Almirante Lynch-class...
her sister ship AlmiranteLynch, the former Almirante Condell, renamed BAE Eloy Alfaro (FM 01). Both ships were handed over by the Chilean Navy to the Navy...
Mollendo, of the gunboat Pilcomayo on 18 November. Blanco Encalada was sunk by a torpedogunboat in the Battle of Caldera Bay, Chile, on 23 April 1891...
000 t) capital ship Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre to small torpedo boats and early wooden vessels. At the beginning, the Chilean Navy was almost entirely...
1891 Chilean Civil War, when the old Congressional battleship "Blanco Encalada" was sunk at anchor by the Balmacedist torpedogunboat "AlmiranteLynch" in...
the gunboat for the Almirante Cochrane, but realizing that it was a smaller ship that was approaching, Grau decided to attack the approaching Chilean ship...
Line". www.norwayheritage.com. Retrieved 27 October 2021. Chilean Navy site AlmiranteLynch Archived 2013-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved on 5...
Encalada 1875-05-08 Almirante Cochrane class Central battery ironclad Chilean Navy Ex-Valparaiso – torpedoed by torpedogunboatAlmiranteLynch in Caldera Bay...
patented by the company was known as the "Yarrow boiler", first used in a torpedo boat in 1887 and later used for a number of applications, from the propulsion...
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