ARA Pueyrredón

Colorized photo of Pueyrredón at anchor before 1922
History
Argentina
Name:	Pueyrredón
Namesake:	Juan Martín de Pueyrredón
Builder:	Gio. Ansaldo & C., Genoa
Launched:	25 September 1897
Completed:	August 1898
Acquired:	1897
Struck:	2 August 1954
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 1957
General characteristics
Class and type:	Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armored cruiser
Displacement:	8,000 t (7,900 long tons) (deep load)
Length:	106.7 m (350 ft 1 in)
Beam:	18.2 m (59 ft 9 in)
Draft:	7.6 m (25 ft)
Installed power:	13,000 ihp (9,700 kW) 16 Belleville boilers
Propulsion:	2 Shafts; 2 Vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Range:	6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	325
Armament:	2 × single 254 mm (10 in) guns 10 × single 152 mm (6 in) guns 6 × single 120 mm (4.7 in) guns 10 × single 57 mm (2.2 in) Hotchkiss guns 10 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss guns 4 × 1 - 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Belt: 80–150 mm (3.1–5.9 in) Barbettes: 150 mm (5.9 in) Gun turrets: 150 mm (5.9 in) Conning tower: 150 mm (5.9 in)

ARA Pueyrredón was one of four Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armored cruisers purchased by the Argentine Navy from Italy in the 1890s.

Pueyrredón had an overall length of 344 feet 2 inches (104.9 m), a beam of 50 feet 8 inches (15.4 m), and a mean draft (ship) of 23 feet 4 inches (7.1 m). She displaced 6,773 metric tons (6,666 long tons) at normal load. The ship was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam from eight Scotch marine boilers. The engines were designed for a maximum output of 13,000 indicated horsepower (9,700 kW) and a speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). She had a cruising range of 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). Her complement consisted of 25 officers and 300 enlisted men.

Her main armament consisted of two 40-caliber Armstrong Whitworth 10-inch (254 mm) guns, in gun turrets fore and aft of the superstructure. The ten 40-caliber quick-firing (QF) 6-inch (152 mm) guns that comprised her secondary armament were arranged in casemates amidships on the main deck. Pueyrredón also had six QF 4.7-inch (119 mm), four QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss and ten QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns to defend herself against torpedo boats. She was also equipped with four above-water 457 mm (18.0 in) torpedo tubes, two on each side.