Built as a school training vessel under yard no 675 by Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Ltd., Elswick near Newcastle-on-Tyne U.K. for the Chilean Government. She was designed by Phillip Watts.
March 1879 ordered.
10 May 1879 keel laid down.
05 July 1889 launched as the GENERAL BAQUEDANO.
Displacement 2,330 tons, dim. 84.43 x 13.9 x 5.5m, length bpp. 73.15.
Powered by one set 6 cylinder steam engine, manufactured by R.W. Hawthorn Leslie, 1,500 ihp, speed 12 knots. During trials maximum speed 13.7 knots.
Bunker capacity 200 ton coal normal, maximum 347 ton.
Armament: 4 – 4.7 inch QF, 2 – 12 pdr QF, 2 – 6pdr. QF, 2 MG and 1 – 18 inch torpedo tube.
Barque rigged. Steel hulled, clad with wood and coppered to 3 feet above the waterline.
Crew 302.
22 August 1899 final trials and handed over to the Chilean Navy.
02 March 1900 she arrived in Chile under command of Captain Ricardo Beaugency.
08 April 1900 sailed from Talcahuano for her first instruction voyage as a training-ship with on board midshipmen of the Navy and cabin boys under command of Captain Arthur Wilson Navarrete making calls at Eastern Island, Vancouver, San Francisco, Honolulu, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hong Kong , Singapore, Batavia, Sydney before returning to Valparaiso were she arrived on 28 February 1901.
1901She made a training voyage under command of Captain Froilan Gonzales Torres from Punta Arenas, Talcahuano, Canary Islands, Halifax, New York, Philadelphia, Havana, and Montevideo returning to Valparaiso.
1902 Made a training cruise to Eastern Islands and the southern channels in Chile.
Then an other cruise the same year from Valparaiso in which she visited New Zealand and Australia returning home in 1903.
09 September 1903 she sailed out from Coquimbo for a circumnavigation of the world first via Cape Horn the Falkland Islands to the Mediterranean, where she visited many ports, then passing the Suez Canal to the Far East before crossing the Pacific to San Francisco, then to the Eastern Island before arriving in Valparaiso 12 January 1904.
1905 She made a voyage to Japan during the Russian-Japan war, and one to North America, and Europe returning back in Chile on 07 March 1906.
1906 She made an other training voyage to Europe and the Mediterranean and returned at the end of January 1907 at Valparaiso.
1908 A training voyage to the Far East and Australia and New Zealand, returning home 24 December 1908.
1909 She underwent repairs only Chilean coastal training voyages took place that year.
From 1910 till 1920 mostly short cruises were made in South America waters, only 1918 she made a training voyage to the Far East.
1921 A cruise to the Far East and Australia and New Zealand, and a short voyage along the coast in Chilean waters.
December 1922 until March 1926 she was under repair.
1926 A training voyage to the Eastern Islands and in the coastal waters of Chile.
1927 A training voyage around South America visiting many countries.
1928 A training voyage via the Panama Canal to the USA before crossing the North Atlantic to Northern Europe and the Baltic then to the Mediterranean before returning home via the Cape Verde, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and Punta Arenas arriving on 23 February 1929 at Valparaiso.
1929 She made a training voyage along the western coast of South and North America visiting many ports, her most northern port was Vancouver before she headed home again arriving 22 February 1930 at Valparaiso.
1931 She made her last training voyage abroad under command of Captain Luis Alvarez Jaramillo in which she visited Eastern Island, Papeete, Apia, Suva, Sydney and Auckland before returning home.
Till 1935 used for coastal training voyages off Chile.
Thereafter used as a tender for the Naval Academy.
15 December 1959 out of service.
The hull was sold to the Company de Acero del Pacifico for scrapping.
Chile 1975 500, 800, 1000e sg749,753,757, scott462,466,470. 2010 $430 sg?, scott? (She is the sailing ship on the right of the $430 stamp.)
Source:
http://www.armada.cl/prontus_armada/sit ... 13426.html Warships for Export, Armstrong Warships 1867-1927 by Peter Brook.
