USS Isla de Cuba
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USS Isla de Cuba was a Isla de Luzón-class protected cruiser of the United States Navy captured from the Spanish Navy during the Spanish–American War. Originally named Isla de Cuba for the Spanish colony of Cuba, the ship was ordered from the British shipbuilding company Sir W.G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company in January 1886 and laid down on 25 February 1886. The ship was launched on 11 December 1886 and completed in 1887. The vessel fought in the Rif War before being assigned to Spain's fleet in the Philippines. When the Spanish fleet in the Philippines was attacked by the United States Navy during the Battle of Manila Bay, Isla de Cuba was scuttled to prevent capture. However, the Americans raised the ship and commissioned her into the United States Navy in 1900 and assigned to the Asiatic Station, keeping the same name. In US service, the ship, rerated as a gunboat, was used to suppress the Philippine Revolution. The vessel was taken out of American service in 1904, becoming a school ship. In 1912, the US sold the ship to Venezuela which renamed her Mariscal Sucre. The ship was scrapped in 1940.
Isla de Cuba soon after completion, probably in a British port | |
History | |
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Spain | |
Name | Isla de Cuba |
Namesake | The island of Cuba in the Caribbean |
Builder | Sir W.G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company, Elswick, Tyne and Wear, England |
Cost | 2,400,000 pesetas |
Laid down | 25 February 1886 |
Launched | 11 December 1886 |
Completed | 22 September 1887 |
Fate | Scuttled 1 May 1898; captured and salvaged by the United States Navy |
United States | |
Name | USS Isla de Cuba |
Namesake | The island of Cuba (Spanish Navy name retained) |
Acquired | by capture, 1 May 1898 |
Commissioned | 11 April 1900 |
Decommissioned | 9 June 1904 |
In service | as school ship, March 1907 |
Fate | Sold to Venezuela, 2 April 1912 |
Venezuela | |
Name | Mariscal Sucre |
Namesake | Antonio José de Sucre |
Acquired | 2 April 1912 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1940 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Isla de Luzón-class protected cruiser |
Displacement | 1,038 t (1,022 long tons) |
Length | 195 ft (59 m) |
Beam | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 4.75 in (3.4735 m) (mean) |
Installed power | 535 ihp (399 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 11.2 kn (12.9 mph; 20.7 km/h) |
Capacity | 160 short tons (150 t) of coal |
Complement | 164 |
Armament |
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Armor | Deck: 1–2.5 in (2.5–6.4 cm) |