Teniente Serrano

Chilean destroyer Teniente Serrano in a postcard of the shipyard
History
Name: Teniente Serrano
Ordered: 1895
Builder: Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, England
Cost: ₤ 55.400
Launched: 1896
Commissioned: 1896
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement: 311 t
Length: 64.9 m (pp)
Beam: 6.55 m
Draught: 1.79 m
Propulsion: 6,250 HP, VTE, 4 Normand boilers
Speed: 30 kn
Complement: 65
Armament:
  • 1 × 1 - 76/40 Armstrong
  • 5 × 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss
  • 2 × 1 - 450 Torpedo Tubes

The Teniente Serrano was a destroyer commissioned by the Chilean Navy in 1896. It was built by Laird Brothers along with three other destroyers: Capitán Orella, Capitán Muñoz Gamero and Guardiamarina Riquelme (later Lientur).

They were steel-hulled torpedo boat destroyers with a turtleback forecastle and four funnels. These ships were, when built, the most advanced ships of their type in Latin America, closely related to contemporary British destroyers. On trials the vessels made 30.1–30.42 kn on 6313–6398hp.

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