''Teniente Serrano'' was a
torpedo boat destroyer
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larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ...
commissioned by the
Chilean Navy
The Chilean Navy ( es, Armada de Chile) is the naval warfare service branch of the Chilean Armed Forces. It is under the Ministry of National Defense. Its headquarters are at Edificio Armada de Chile, Valparaiso.
History
Origins and the War ...
in 1896. It was built by
Laird Brothers
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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 on .
''Teniente Serrano'' was
launched at Laird's
Birkenhead
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shipyard on 16 May 1896.
See also
* which served with Chilean Navy from 1928 to 1967
*
Argentine–Chilean naval arms race
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the South American nations of Argentina and Chile engaged in an expensive naval arms race to ensure the other would not gain supremacy in the Southern Cone.
Although the Argentine and Chilean ...
*
List of decommissioned ships of the Chilean Navy
The list of decommissioned ships of the Chilean Navy is mostly compiled from information given in the website of thChilean Navy It consists of over 500 ''historical units'' including ships of the Patria Vieja, prizes, fireships, armed merchant ...
References
*Lyon, Hugh. "Chile." In ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1860–1905'', edited by Robert Gardiner, Roger Chesneau, and Eugene Kolesnik, 410–15. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1979. . .
External links
* Chilean Navy website
Destructor Serrano (1896)
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Capitán Orella-class destroyers
1896 ships