Chilean destroyer Almirante Lynch
Sister ship Almirante Condell | |
History | |
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Chile | |
Name | Almirante Lynch |
Namesake | Patricio Lynch |
Ordered | 1911 |
Builder | J. Samuel White, UK |
Laid down | 1912 |
Launched | 28 September 1912 |
Commissioned | 1913 |
Decommissioned | 19 December 1945 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Almirante Lynch-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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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) |
Propulsion |
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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) |
Complement | 160 |
Armament |
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Almirante Lynch was a destroyer in service with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II. She was named after Admiral Patricio Lynch, Chilean sailor, hero of the War of the Pacific.
The Chilean Navy ordered six ships from J. Samuel White in 1911. These destroyers were larger and more powerful that contemporary British destroyers. Almirante Lynch was built by the United Kingdom as part of a six ship class of Almirante Lynch-class destroyers, of which only two were delivered before the outbreak of war, and served in the Chilean Navy until 1945.[1]
Citations
- ^ Whitley, p. 30
Bibliography
- Whitley, M. J. (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.