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ARA Rivadavia |
Type: |
Battleship |
Class: |
Rivadavia (Class Overview) |
Builder: |
Fore River Ship & Engine Co. Quincy, Massachusetts |
Hull Number: |
N/A |
Ordered: |
1909 |
Commissioned: |
December 1914 |
Keel Laid: |
May 25, 1910 |
Decommissioned: |
N/A |
Launched: |
June 28, 1911 |
Stricken: |
N/A |
Fate: |
Sold Feb. 8, 1956 to Messrs Ardemsa Genoa, Italy and scrapped in 1957. |
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Dimensions, machinery and performance |
Length: |
584' 9" |
Engines: |
3 Curtis steam turbines |
Beam: |
96' 7" |
Boilers: |
18 Babcock & Wilcox (coal fired) |
Draft: |
28' |
Shafts: |
3 |
Displacement: |
27,940 std. / 30,600 full |
SHP: |
39,500 |
Speed: |
22.5 knots |
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Crew: |
1,215 |
Range: |
7,740 NM@ 10 knots |
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Armament As Built |
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Number Carried
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Type
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Arrangement |
Maximum Range / Ceiling |
12 |
12"/50 (305mm) |
6 twin turrets |
24,000 yards @ 14.7° (13.6 miles) with a 870 lb. armor piercing shell |
12 |
6"/50 (152mm) |
single mounts |
15,000 yards @ 14.9° (8.5 miles) with a 105 lb. armor piercing shell |
16 |
4"/50 (102mm) |
single mounts |
15,920 yards @ 20° (9 miles) with a 33 lb. armor piercing shell |
2 |
21" (533mm) torpedo tubes |
2 broadside submerged |
4,000 yards @ 27 knots 200 lb. wet gun-cotton warhead |
Page created Jan. 28, 2007 |