ARA Los Andes

Los Andes at anchor, about 1905
History
Argentina
Name:	ARA Los Andes
Namesake:	Andes
Builder:	Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, London
Launched:	29 October 1875
Struck:	16 November 1927
Fate:	Scrapped, 1929?
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	El Plata-class monitor
Displacement:	1,535 long tons (1,560 t)
Length:	180 ft (54.9 m) (p/p)
Beam:	44 ft (13.4 m)
Draft:	9 ft 1 in (2.8 m)
Installed power:	750 ihp (560 kW)
Propulsion:	2 shafts, Compound steam engines
Speed:	9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Range:	1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi)
Complement:	120
Armament:	2 × Armstrong 9-inch (229 mm) muzzle-loading rifles 2 × small guns
Armor:	Belt: 4.5–6 in (114–152 mm) Deck: 1 in (25 mm) Gun turret: 8–10 in (203–254 mm)

ARA Los Andes was one of two El Plata-class monitors built in Britain in the 1870s for the Argentine Navy.

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Bibliography

Wikimedia Commons has media related to ARA Los Andes.

• Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5. 
• Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1922. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-907-3. 
• "Ironclads Vasco da Gama and Andes". Warship International. Toledo, Ohio: Naval Records Club. X (1): 106–08. 1973. 

See also

• List of ships of the Argentine Navy

External links

• "MONITOR A.R.A. "LOS ANDES"". Histarmar - Historia y Arqueologia Marítima (in Spanish). FUNDACION HISTARMAR. Retrieved 2014-07-03.