Don Carlos

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Dom Carlos I, a cruiser, is shown on the 1.00 escudo stamp of Angola. Built at Elswick, she was launched in 1898, and completed a year later. The cruiser's displacement was 4,100 tons, her length being 360 ft., beam 461/2 ft., and draft 171/2 ft. The i.h.p. was 12,500, giving a speed of 22 knots, and she was armed with four 5.9in; eight 4.7 in, twelve 3-pounder, and six 1-pounder guns, together with four machine guns. She was fitted with five torpedo tubes, three of them submerged, and the ship's complement was 260. SG658

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Correct name is DOM CARLOS I.
The order to build the cruiser was given in January 1896 to the British yard of Armstrong at Elswick on the River Tyne by the Portuguese Government.
Built under yard no 669, keel laid down on 03 Dec. 1896.
05 May 1898 launched under the name DOM CARLOS I (name is DOM and not DON)
Displacement 4.253 tons, dim. 117.95 x 14.2 x 5.3m (draught). Length on waterline 109.7m.
Armament 4 – 6 inch QF., 8 – 4.7 inch QF. 14 – 3 pdr. QF, 4 machine guns. 5 – 18 inch torpedo tubes, two submerged, three above water, two broadside one stern.
Powered by two sets Vertical Triple Expansion steamengines, manufactured by R & W Hawthorn Leslie, normal speed 8.000 ihp, 20 knots. Full speed 12.500 ihp., 12.500, 22 knots.
Bunker capacity coal 700 tons normal, maximum 1.000 tons.
Crew 305.
19 April 1899, final trials. The cruiser was designed by Phillip Watts.

She arrived in July 1899 at Lisbon.
1906Returned to Elswick for retubing of herYarrow boilers and repair on the main engine, stayed on the yard until September 1907.
October 1910, she took a prominent part in the revolution in Portugal.
01 Dec. 1910, renamed in ALMIRANTE REIS.
1918 Dismantled for reconstruction, but by the financial trouble in Portugal after the revolution not any progress was made, and she was never commissioned again.
1923 Discarded from the navy list.
1925 Scrapped in the Netherlands.

Source: Warships for Export, Armstrong Warships 1867 – 1927 by Peter Brook.
Jane’s Fighting Ships 1914. Navicula.