Almirante Lynch-class destroyer (1912)
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Almirante Lynch class |
| Builders: | J. Samuel White, United Kingdom |
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| Succeeded by: | Serrano class |
| Built: | 1911–1915 |
| In commission: | 1913–1945 |
| Planned: | 6 |
| Completed: | 6 |
| Lost: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
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| Length: | 101 m (331 ft 4 in) |
| Beam: | 9.9 m (32 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 3.35 m (11 ft 0 in) |
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| Speed: | 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph) |
| Range: | 4,205 nmi (7,788 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) with 403 tons coal, 83 tons oil |
| Complement: | 160 (197 in ex-British ships) |
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The Almirante Lynch class destroyers were a group of ships built for the Chilean Navy prior to World War I. Initially six ships were planned, two being delivered. The other four were purchased by and incorporated into the Royal Navy during World War I as the Faulknor class. Following the war, the three surviving ships were returned to the Chilean Navy and renamed the Almirante Williams class. The class of ships was named after Admiral Patricio Lynch, Chilean sailor, hero of the War of the Pacific.
The Chileans had long been customers of British shipyards and ordered six ships from J. Samuel White in 1911. These destroyers were a private design by J. Samuel White that were significantly larger and heavier armed than their contemporary British destroyers. They had four funnels, a tall, narrow fore funnel and three broad, short funnels behind.
Construction of these ships led to an expansion of the yard and the purchase of a large 80 ton hammerhead crane from Babcock & Wilcox of Renfrew, Scotland.
They were initially armed with six single QF 4 inch guns, unusually arranged with four on the forecastle - two sided in front of the wheelhouse and two sided abreast it - the remaining pair being sided on the quarterdeck. These guns were of a novel Elswick design for the Chileans and when the ships were rearmed they were replaced with standard Royal Navy models. As rearmed in 1918 they carried a BL 4.7 inch gun on the forecastle and another on a bandstand between the after pair of funnels, retained the pair of 4 inch guns abreast the wheelhouse and had two QF 2 pounder pom-poms.
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